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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. The Italian Text with a Translation in English Blank Verse and a Commentary by Courtney Langdon, vol. 1 (Inferno) (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1918).

Author: Dante Alighieri
Translator: Courtney Langdon

Part of: The Divine Comedy, in 3 vols. (Langdon trans.)

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CANTO XI

The Sixth Circle (continued). The Distribution, or Ethical Classification of the Damned

With reference to the note to line it could be urged that a punishment that was literally endless would be one that would attain no conceivable object but the unworthy one of revenge, and hence is no more imaginable than are endless time or space. Spiritual truths must one and all of them be grasped qualitatively and not quantitatively.