Dante's Inferno | Canto 20 Summary and Analysis
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Sinners with Their Heads on Backwards: Astrologers, sorcerers, and magicians; represented by Michael Scott, Asdante, and Guy Bonatti
Summary
Dante describes the sinners with their heads on backwards and how he was moved to pity and to weeping upon seeing them. Virgil, on the other hand, reprimands Dante for crying and asks who could be more wicked than one who is tormented here.
Virgil refers to Amphiaraus and Tiresias in his speech telling of the origin of Mantua. Some of the people whom Dante sees just before he and Virgil leave the area are Michael...
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