TY - JOUR
T1 - Dante Alighieri's narcolepsy
AU - Galassi, Francesco Maria
AU - Habicht, Michael E.
AU - Rühli, Frank J.
PY - 2016/3
Y1 - 2016/3
N2 - Dante Alighieri's (1265–1321) Canto 1 of Inferno describes the memorable episode in which he tries to climb a mountain towards his final redemption but encounters three wild beasts, one of which is a she-wolf, which scares him back down the mountain. As Dante steps back, he stumbles upon his mentor Virgil, to whom he says: “Behold the beast on whose account I turned:/ from her protect me, O thou famous Sage,/ for she makes both my veins and pulses tremble”. The poetic hendiadys in the final verse should be read as “my pulsating veins” or, in other words, “my arteries”.
AB - Dante Alighieri's (1265–1321) Canto 1 of Inferno describes the memorable episode in which he tries to climb a mountain towards his final redemption but encounters three wild beasts, one of which is a she-wolf, which scares him back down the mountain. As Dante steps back, he stumbles upon his mentor Virgil, to whom he says: “Behold the beast on whose account I turned:/ from her protect me, O thou famous Sage,/ for she makes both my veins and pulses tremble”. The poetic hendiadys in the final verse should be read as “my pulsating veins” or, in other words, “my arteries”.
KW - Dante Alighieri
KW - Narcolepsy
KW - Medicine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84981216547&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S1474-4422(16)00029-6
DO - 10.1016/S1474-4422(16)00029-6
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 26888352
AN - SCOPUS:84981216547
SN - 1474-4422
VL - 15
SP - 245
JO - The Lancet Neurology
JF - The Lancet Neurology
IS - 3
ER -