Commentary Inf XV 52-53

These verses seem deliberately to recapitulate in breve the opening scene of Inferno (I.1-66). Among the commentators, only last century's Dino Provenzal (DDP Provenzal.Inf.XV.53) worried about Dante's failure to name Virgil here, thinking that perhaps it masked his sense that Virgil had in fact been overshadowed as guide by Beatrice.