Clavis Libri

Literary device

Parallelism

Consecutive sentences or verses with the same construction, so that the reader compares what changes from one to the next.

In Inferno

but when you return to the sweet world, I beg that you bring me to the memory of others: I do not tell you more and I do not answer you more.

The two final clauses have the same construction: "I do not tell you more" and "I do not answer you more". The parallelism closes the conversation with two identical negations and gives the farewell a dry and final tone.

Cantos V to VIII: The Incontinent, Ciacco, the Florentine glutton of the third circle, as he takes leave of Dante