Dante appears younger than the traditional iconography. When you proceed to the various circles of hell, but even before, when discovers that he is prevented from crossing the Acheron with the crowd of the damned, host of the "cart" of Charon, his face begins to brutalize and symbolically to age.
In the long journey that awaits you can also think of hair loss as a condition of maximum light divine or as a last nervous breakdown after having seen all the colors! Already by the third song a long beard and the first taken away in respect of the "sloth," resulting in premature aging, inner witness of all the bad poet who suffers the fate of being devoured by worms, flies and wasps.
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