On Dante’s Commedia: The Fact of the Fiction and the Truth of the Poem

Jason Menzin at St. John's Review.

"The infernal poetics of the first canticle of Dante’s Commedia center on Geryon, the monster of fraud at the middle of Inferno. Through Geryon, an imagine of unnatural poetry, Dante prompts the reader to consider the damning potential of human poeisis, calling into question the truth of his own poetic endeavor. ..."

See Dante, "On World Government" from De Monarchia in Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963) volume 7, and The Divine Comedy in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 21, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 19.