bonturo

Updated: July 15, 2025

Dante looked round, and beheld a devil coming up with a newly-arrived sinner across his shoulders, whom he hurled into the lake, and then dashed down after him, like a mastiff let loose on a thief. It was a man from Lucca, where every soul was a false dealer except Bonturo.

Leigh Hunt - Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1