This call to the iconoclastic, critical self-reflection that the poem unfolds suggests that, hermeneutically speaking, the Divine Comedy resists popularization. There is always something else, something more, in every line of the poem, and the palimpsests behind the overtness of the literal sense force us readers to launch headlong into the “more” that the poem offers. Beginning with the central canticle of the poem, Dante tries to chart the course for the pilgrim himself; he will do so again for the fewer brave sea-voyagers in Paradise, and, again, eventually for those the poet refers to as the “people of the future”: in reality, he wants his poem to become the everyman’s vademecum, as a way of making possible what we see from the edges, the limits and the limitlessness of the human. The poem guides the reader in acknowledging one’s actual place in the world and in wanting to find that place by breaking out of the prison of the self and its mirrors. Individually first, but also as members of the pilgrim Church, he hopes his readers will discover that they all have in common something profound: they all take different routes in a common pursuit, at the end of which it is possible to look into the knot where the human and the divine are bound together.In short, for Dante there is nothing more fascinating than a conversation, as those waiting for a banquet to start know. It is the time when we see ourselves in another and another in ourselves.