CANTO VII.

The Fourth Circle. · Plutus. The Avaricious and the Prodigal. — Fortune

and her Wheel. The Fifth Circle. Styx. The Irascible and the

Sullen

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CANTO VIII.

Phlegyas. — Philippo Argenti. — The Gate of the City of Dis .

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Pope Anastasius. — General Description of the Inferno and its Divisions

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CANTO XII.

The Minotaur. — The Seventh Circle. The Violent. Phlegethon. — The

Violent against their Neighbors. — The Centaurs. – Tyrants,

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CANTO XIII.

The Wood of Thorns. The Harpies. — The Violent against themselves.

Suicides. — Pier della Vigna. Lano and Jacopo da Sant' Andrea .

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CANTO XIV.

The Sand Waste. — The Violent against God. — Capaneus. — The Statue of

Time, and the Four Infernal Rivers

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CANTO XV.

The Violent against Nature.

Brunetto Latini.

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CANTO XVI.

Guidoguerra, Aldobrandi, and Rusticucci. - Cataract of the River of Blood

94

The Eighth Circle: Malebolge. — The Fraudulent. — The First Bolgia : Sedu-

cers and Panders. — Venedico Caccianimico. — Jason. — The Second

Bolgia : Flatterers. Allessio Interminelli. - Thaïs .

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CANTO XIX.

The Third Bolgia : the Simoniacs.

Pope Nicholas III.

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CANTO X X.

The Fourth Bolgia : Soothsayers. - Amphiaraus, Tiresias, Aruns, Manto,

Eryphylus, Michael Scott, Guido Bonatti, and Asdente

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The Sixth Bolgia : Hypocrites. - Catalano and Loderingo. — Caiaphas

137

CANTO XXIV.

The Seventh Bolgia : Thieves.

Vanni Fucci

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CANTO XXV.

Agnello Brunelleschi, Buoso degli Abati, Puccio Sciancato, Cianfa de' Donati,

and Guercio Cavalcanti

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CANTO XXVI.

The Eighth Bolgia : Evil Counsellors. — Ulysses and Diomed

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CANTO XXVII.

Guido da Montefeltro .

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CANTO XXVIII.

Pier da Medicina,

The Ninth Bolgia : Schismatics. Mahomet and Ali.

Curio, Mosca, and Bertrand de Born.

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CANTO XXIX.

The Tenth Bolgia : Alchemists.

Griffolino d'Arezzo and Capocchio .

178

CANTO X XX.

Other Falsifiers or Forgers. - Gianni Schicchi, Myrrha, Adam of Brescia, Pot-

iphar's Wife, and Sinon of Troy

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CANTO XXXI.

The Giants, Nimrod, Ephialtes, and Antæus

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CANTO XXXII.

The Ninth Circle : the Frozen Lake of Cocytus. First Division, Caïna :

Traitors to their Kindred. Camicion de' Pazzi. Second Division,

Antenora : Traitors to their Country. Bocca degli Abati and Buoso da

Duera.

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CANTO XXXIII.

Count Ugolino and the Archbishop Ruggieri. — Third Division of the Ninth

Circle, Ptolomæa : Traitors to their Friends. Friar Alberigo, Branco

d' Oria

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CANTO XXXIV.

Fourth Division of the Ninth Circle, the Judecca : Traitors to their Lords and

Benefactors. — Lucifer, Judas Iscariot, Brutus and Cassius

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ILLUSTRATIONS.

L' Ottimo Comento

Villani's Notice of Dante

Letter of Frate Ilario .

Passage from the Convito

Dante's Letter to a Friend .

Portraits of Dante

Boccaccio's Account of the Commedia

The Posthumous Dante

The Scholastic Philosophy :

Homer's Odyssey, Book XI.

Virgil's Æneid, Book VI.

Cicero's Vision of Scipio

Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven

The Vision of Frate Alberico.

The Vision of Walkelin

From the Life of St. Brandan .

Icelandic Vision .

Anglo-Saxon Description of Paradise

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