Commentary Purg IV 85-87

Appeased, the student has learned his lesson but now would like to know how much longer he must continue this exhausting journey.  It is interesting that, in a canto in which the primary new character is the extremely lazy Belacqua, the protagonist is so strongly presented as wanting to rest -- perhaps more so than in any other part of the poem (but see [Inf XXIV 43-45]).