V/2 The judgement of Minos is represented as already having taken place within the sinner's head. Dante himself, certainly in his earlier years, was known to be a philanderer and it is his own skull (taken from a drawing made by a Princeton scholar at the time of the exhumation of the poet's bones in the 1920's) that I have used here, as if to show him self condemned. Dante revisits carnal scenes of his youth perhaps, as the tail of Minos coils within his mind and winds itself around every remembered coupling. The same skull outline also appears in Canto VIII/2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.