Who art thou ?" "I am called Marbodius of the Kingdom of Alca.

I made my profession in the Abbey of Corrigan.

I read thy poems by day and I read them by night.
It is thee whom I have come to see in Hell; I was impatient to know what thy fate was.

On earth the learned often dispute about it.

Some hold it probable that, having lived under the power of demons, thou art now burning in inextinguishable flames; others, more cautious, pronounce no opinion, believing that all which is said concerning the dead is uncertain and full of lies; several, though not in truth the ablest, maintain that, because thou didst elevate the tone of the Sicilian Muses and foretell that a new progeny would descend from heaven, thou wert admitted, like the Emperor Trajan, to enjoy eternal blessedness in the Christian heaven." "Thou seest that such is not the case," answered the shade, smiling.
"I meet thee in truth, O Virgil, among the heroes and sages in those Elysian Fields which thou thyself hast described.