Divine Comedy-I: Inferno
Cantos 4
What are the implications of Dante's self-identification as "sixth" among the great poets
What are the implications of Dante's self-identification as "sixth" among the great poets
Dante modestly pays himself a great compliment by having the great authors of Classical times accept him as one of them. Readers of the Inferno were presumably supposed to agree with these noble shades. It is important to notice that, according to Dante, no literature of importance had been written since Antiquity before Dante's work.