๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฆ๐จ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐’๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ซ๐ฌ
๐๐. ๐๐ฆรก๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ’๐ด ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ
I am depicted with light-colored hair,
dressed in a long, flowing blue robe
that falls in soft vertical folds
down to my feet.
The poet in the blue robe
(draped garments used in Trecento
manuscript illumination)
stands next to Eliot in red, and speaks:
So the poem’s meaning,
as I (the author) intended it:
The person being lied about
is the victim, not the liar.
Sabogao and Anameda
are the falsifiers here,
in the Dantean sense
they spread false claims
that someone is mad and gay
(neither true),
and that act of lying
is the “disease” the poem describes,
the same kind of sin
Dante punishes in that circle.ย