Mr. Garker,

I apologize for the dangling of a preposition. It was a ludicrous oversight on my part.

As pertains to our topic of whether or not _The Divine Comedy_ is an allegory, I will refer to someone who knows more than you or I do. His name is Mr. Archibald T. MacAllister, a professor at Princeton. This excerpt comes directly from the introduction of the John Ciardi translation of _The Inferno_.

“_The Divine Comedy_ is also an allegory. But it is fortunately that special type of allegory wherein every element must first correspond to a literal reality, every episode must exist coherently in itself. Allegorical interpretation does not detract from the story…Many readers have, indeed, been thrilled by _The Inferno’s_ power with hardly any awareness of further meanings…” (Page xiv)