The road less travelled by

Dante lost in the woods, hands in the air, confused, in a 14th-century Italian manuscript, Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48.

We know that Dante found himself in a dark wood, but we aren’t told where he had been before.

He didn’t choose the road, the road chose him, by procuration. For he had lost the straight path. It is also unclear where the straig…