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1. • • As narrator, Dante invokes the muses and the personification of memory to help him recall his journey. Dante worries that he is not strong enough for the journey before him. He says that Aeneas went to the underworld and Paul went to heaven, but he is not a hero like Aeneas or a holy apostle like Paul.
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   What is the premise of Inferno 2?

   • In sum, the premise to Inferno 2, the premise to the “plot” of the Commedia, is Dante’s refusal of normative consolation. He refuses both new living loves (the donna gentile of the Vita Nuova) and new allegorized loves (Lady Philosophy in the Convivio ).

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   How does Inferno 2 start?

   • Inferno 2 begins by situating the traveler and his fear in the growing dusk of the departing day, as he prepares himself for the battle that awaits him. Following the epic invocation to the Muses of verses 7–9 (another marker of incipience), Dante announces to Virgilio that he is afraid.

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   What does Virgilio say about Dante in Inferno 2?

   • Virgilio explains that Dante was chosen for this undertaking, and that he, Virgilio, was chosen to come to the aid of the chosen one, the eletto. Virgilio speaks for much of Inferno 2, repeating what was said to him by Beatrice, here introduced to the dramatis personae of the Commedia.

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   Why is Inferno 2 important?

   • Inferno 2 is an important moment in the poet’s programmatic serialization of his beginning, for Dante carefully undoes the beginning of the voyage that he had apparently set into motion at the end of Inferno 1. Inferno 1 ends with the pilgrim’s embrace of Virgilio as his leader and guide, and with the beginning of their journey together.

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   Dante does not think he is fit for the difficult journey. As a time ambiguously between the light of day and the dark of night, evening suggests that Dante is still poised between the possibilities of sin and piety.

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   Dante calls upon the Muses to help him remember and express what he has seen. Concerned about the journey ahead, he begins to have second thoughts. He asks Virgil if he can really travel into "the deathless world" in his living body. Virgil replies that Dante's cowardice is a distraction.

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   Inferno 2 borrows from these Vita Nuova canzoni to develop the pre-history and the premise of the Commedia: the ability to find consolation and succor in a dead beloved; Inferno 2 dramatizes the premise of meaningful consolation from a dead beloved with narratological flair: in a narrative flashback to a time before the action of Inferno 1

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    Dante Alighieri's Inferno Chapter Summary. Find summaries for every chapter, including a Inferno Chapter Summary Chart to help you understand the book.