Purgatory for Retired Abominations

Dante and Beatrice. Pencil on paper. Source: #CardComics on IG

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What today we call centos are poems, typically, though not exclusively, Christian in content, which are composed with a technique that flourished from the third to the seventeenth century that evoked stitching, weaving, and needlework. Their authors draw lines chiefly from Virgil (in the Latin-speaking world) or from Homer (in the Greek-speaking world) to compose new poems, both secular and Christian. Homeric Centos are poems made up entirely of verses lifted verbatim, with, occasionally, only slight modification, from the Iliad and Odyssey.

In terms of ancient readership, the Christian exegetes’ strong condemnation of the cento practice suggests that the laity was quite fond of this kind of poetry, which demanded that the audience play an active role in decoding its meaning.

Virgil: The sky is beautiful tonight

Dante: Yeah...

Virgil, turning to him: You know what else is beautiful?

Dante, heart racing: What?

“In the midway of this our mortal life,

I found me in a gloomy wood,

Ashtray”

I can't stop making these,

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