Inferno, Canto 25Summary(Continuing from the last canto...) Vanni Fucci defies God and flees, pursued by the monster Cacus. Three more spirits arrive, and the Poets watch while one of them becomes blended with the form of a reptile containing the spirit of a fourth, and the second exchanges shapes with yet another transformed Thief.
The Prepatory LectureQuestions for Reflection
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Canto 25 © Jan Hearn
The ImagesThe Thieves (cont.) In this canto we see how the Thieves, who made no distinction between meum and tuum - between the “mine" and the "thine" - cannot call their forms or their personalities their own; for in Hell’s horrible parody of exchange the “I” and the “thou” fluctuate and are lost.
A summary of various transformations may be a convenience:
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