"O Malebranche, here is another one of Santa Zita's elders! While i go back to bring more from his homeland, trust him below. His city gives us an abundant stock. Every citizen there except Banturo practices burratry." (CantoXXI 36-40) I have never heard of Santa Zita and have no idea what city he is from and why what they did in the city sent them to hell. After some research I discovered Santa Zita was from the city of Lucca. The reason people from Lucca were sent to hell was for the crime of barratry. Barratry is the crime of selling public offices. At the end of the text I picked out Bonturo is mentioned as not being a part of the corruption. But after looking into it Bonturo was apparently the worst and practiced barratry the most. Dante's mentioning of Bonturo reveals his sarcastic nature.

"the present Fracas turned my mind to Aesop's fable of the frog and the mouse."(Canto XXIII 3-4) I am not familiar with the fable about the frog and the mouse and how it is related to the story. The story is about a mouse asking a frog if he could ride on his back across a river. The mouse is tied to the frog but while crossing the river, the frog continually dives under water to try to kill the mouse. But a mouse swoops and picks up the frog. the moral of the story is that bad things happen to those who try to hurt others. In relation to the story, Dante and Virgil could be the innocent mouse and the frog could be the people and demons directing them through hell.