INTRODUCED BY the complex transition of cantos 16 and 17, Inferno 18 constitutes an emphatic new beginning situated at the canticle’s midpoint, at its narrative “mezzo del cammin.” “Luogo e in Inferno detto Malebolge” (“There is a place in hell called Malebolge”) begins the canto, with a verse that is crisply informative, explicitly introductory, and patently devoted to differentiation: this is a new place, a new locus. (Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia epidemica) That all community is continued by Truth, and that of Hell cannot consist without it. although they deceive us, they lie not unto each other as well understanding Themselves are daily forced to practise it. ![]() That it hath place within the walls of Hell, and the Devils ![]() But of such a diffused nature, and so large is the Empire of Truth,
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