Dante's Inferno | Canto 4 Summary and Analysis
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The Blameless but Unbaptized and Those Who Lived Before the Age of Christendom: Souls in limbo from the First Circle
Summary
Dante awakens to find that he is on the brink of Hell. When Dante looks into the pit, he cannot see its bottom. Virgil tells him that they must travel into the pit. Dante says that Virgil’s pallor frightens him, but Virgil says it is the anguish within the pit and not the journey that causes his pallor.
From the First Circle come not the wails of anguish but the sounds of sighing. The souls which are sighing are those who are...
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