Commentary Inf XXIV 65-66

These lines introduce a problem (who is speaking?) that will weave itself through the text until perhaps the eighteenth verse of the next canto. In a typically Dante-unfriendly gesture, Castelvetro objects that these lines are useless and never find a resolution (DDP Castelvetro.Inf.XXIV.65-66). As we shall see, there may be a point to the interpretive exercise that Dante here invites the reader to join.