Dante on Dame Fortune

I am a huge fan of Dante's Inferno, which I first read in high school because of an Uncanny X-man summer special. (Let it never be said that comic books are not educational.) Since I started writing I've been reading and rereading it, trying to tease out lessons from the Master's style. (In much the same way, I guess, that Dante studied Virgil. I'm fairly certain that of the tow of us, Dante is the better student.)

Tonight I felt moved to share one of my favorite passages. It's the section where Virgil is explaining who Dame Fortune is to Dante, and I've included one of Virgil's bit of smack:
( Cut for length, but you really should go and read it )