Is Virgil Naked? Clothing in Dante’s Commedia

By Thomas Rendall

Dante’s poem presents the humiliation of nakedness as part of the punishment of the souls in hell. But what about those in purgatory and limbo, and what about Virgil himself? Although most readers cannot imagine a naked Virgil, Dante gives only a…

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