The narrator of this work encounters the madman Phlyegas, the parodic hymnist Plutus, a blind man who asks if his poet son Guido is dead, and the general Farinata.   
In Orientalism, Edward Said contrasts this work's positive treatment of Saladin with its scatologically-accurate depiction of Mohammed's bisection. The narrator of this work encounters the madman Phlyegas, the parodic hymnist Plutus, a blind man who asks if his poet son Guido is dead, and the general Farinata.   At age thirty-five, that narrator, awakes to find himself in the Dark Wood of Error in its first tercet, from whence he asks to be led to Peter's grave and soon encounters a a stone reading "I am the way into the City of Woe…Abandon all hope ye who enter here."  FTP, name this first part of the The Divine Comedy, where Virgil leads Dante through Hell.
In Orientalism, Edward Said contrasts this work's positive treatment of Saladin with its scatologically-accurate depiction of Mohammed's bisection.
{Inferno }(prompt on “Divine Comedy”)