Anyone please,

    In Pound's "Spirit of Romance" concerning Dante's "Commedia" he writes;

"Thus the 'Commedia' is, in the literal sense, a description of Dante's
vision of a journey through the realms inhabited by the spirits of men after
death; in a further sense it is the journey of Dante's intelligence through
the states of mind wherein dwell all sorts and conditions of men before
death; beyond this, Dante or Dante's intelligence may come to mean
'Everyman' or 'Mankind,' whereat his journey becomes a symbol of mankind's
struggle upward out of ignorance into the clear light of philosophy. In the
second sense I give here, the journey is Dante's own mental and spiritual
development. In a fourth sense, the 'Commedia' is an expression of the laws
of eternal justice; 'il contrapasso,' the counterpass, as Bertran calls
it(5) or the law of Karma, if we are to use an Oriental term."
   Pound's footnote (5) reads, "Inferno, XXIV."  I have looked at my copy of
Dante , The Carlyle-Wicksteed translation, and I wish someone could tell me
what in Book XXIV can be identified as "il contrapasso" or "the
counterpass". In fact, what IS a counterpass?
    I would appreciate any explanation.
    Thank you in advancia,

Charles