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Often appears with: river entanglement burial motif · prayers for the dead · prayer and worship · martyr-like repentance after death · justice as a virtue · buonconte da montefeltro’s posthumous narrative
Usually: narrative (1) · confronting death (1)
A group of spirits who died by violence begs Dante for prayers, then narrates how they were reconciled to God, including Fano and Romagna, Buonconte da Montefeltro’s death at Casentino, and Archiano river’s role in his disappearance.
“This folk that presses unto us is great, And cometh to implore thee,” said the Poet; “So still go onward, and in going listen.” “O soul that goest to beatitude With the same members wherewith thou wast born,” Shouting they came, “a little stay thy steps, Look, if thou e’er hast any of us seen, So that o’er yonder thou bear news of him; Ah, why dost thou go on? Ah, why not stay? Long since we all …