Brant, Sebastian - Peter Skrine (essay date July 1969)

Peter Skrine (essay date July 1969)

SOURCE: Skrine, Peter. “The Destination of the Ship of Fools: Religious Allegory in Brant's Narrenschiff.” Modern Language Review 64, no. 3 (July 1969): 576-96.

[In the following essay, Skrine analyzes The Ship of Fools as a commentary on the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes.]

In Canto III of the Inferno the souls of the damned gather waiting

                                                            alla riva malvagia
ch'attende ciascun uom che Dio non teme

(l. 107)

to be ferried by Charon across the dark waters of the Acheron

                                                            all'altra riva
nelle tenebre etterne

(l. 86)

and Virgil explains to Dante:

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