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as the mysterious figure of the Hound and 500 10 5 cryptograms, beneath Monad, Pentad and Decad and the complex, ideological emblems of imperial6 and divine justice:7 the Pentad and the Eagle. Essential metaphysical, allegorical and metaphorical symbols 3⁄4 hermeneutical keys 3⁄4 purporting to ascertain a Christological, and by consequence, an eschatological interpretation, in relation to 2012 apocalyptic prophecies, fate and free-will, necessity and contingency.
6Palma Di Cessnola, pp 54-55, mentions a series of arguments in Inferno I supporting this view.
7 Virgil’s fame as the pagan, poet-prophet foretelling Christ’s birth, explicit in Purgatorio XXII, favours a
Christological interpretation of the Veltro.
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