Canto VI of the Inferno loans itself well to the conventional configuration of a lectura Dantis, in which one canto is lifted from the setting of the entire work, and considered as a solitary wonderful substance. This canto is one of the briefest in the Comedy: just a single other, Inferno XI, has as few as 115 lines. Canto VI can be viewed as an independent unit, since it holds the entire portrayal of one hover of Hell, the third, where Gluttons are rebuffed. The activity of the canto is symmetrically confined by two fanciful evil spirits, Cerberus and Plutus, who manage its opening and shutting scenes individually. At the inside, a solitary character develops, emerging strikingly from anonymous hordes of prostrate miscreants. He is the Florentine