New essay on Dante's Inferno, Canto V — Francesca da Rimini and three concentric seduction rings.
The book seduced Paolo and Francesca. Her telling seduced Dante (he faints "as a dead body falls"). The poem may be seducing us in exactly the same direction.
Francesca speaks in three tercets, each beginning *Love*. Love seized, Love drew, Love brought them to death. She is acted upon throughout. She never says: I chose. That's the symptom, not the exoneration.
Dante faints. The poem doesn't.
https://dunedainai.com/essays/that-day-we-read-no-further.html
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