XXVII/4 The end of Guido's sad tale (in contrast to that of his son, related in Purgatorio, who repented in the very mouth of Hell) is of a long repentance negated by a single action. Here in his Franciscan robe we see him tumbling down after the black cherub had snatched him from St Francis himself (in a scene dominated once again by the eloquence of evil). Amongst the fallen angels are all the counterparts of the true Angelic Orders. The black Cherubim whose representative we meet here in the eighth Bolgia of the eighth circle are of the eighth order and represent the intellect. He is presented here as three Roman eights, black and twisted. St Francis, whose image Guido has tried to 'mirror', as indicated in the drawing, drifts back up without his dubious prize whereas Guido is pierced by pain in a parody of the Saint's stigmata, and his face is now concealed as he would wish his fate concealed on earth: it is at this point in the Inferno that the souls become less keen on having the world reminded of their deeds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.