#imagining brutus and cassius in the after life giving commentary on commentary about their dante counterparts is top tier comedy for me

[attila-werther]

@garland-on-thy-brow said: Cassius: Being a princeps (senatus) used to be cool before Octavian made it cringe

in reference to this bit of divine comedy [inferno 34.61-67] commentary from Guido da Pisa (1327-28[?]) I was posting about

[...] videlicet de Iuda, qui prodidit Christum, filium Dei vivi, de quo actum est supra, et de duobus principibus romanis, Bruto scilicet et Cassio, qui Iulium Cesarem prodiderunt.