Commentary Par II 10

'Voi altri pochi' (you other few): This is the fifteenth address to the reader in the poem.  See C.Inf.VIII.94-96; and see Ledda (Ledd.2002.1), pp. 117-58, for a full discussion of Dante's addresses to the reader (nineteen in all, according to him [pp. 119-21]), as part of the poet's larger authorial strategies.