The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The InfernoDante Alighieri
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English; Hell; Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English
CANTO XV.
The Seventh Circle continued--the Violent against Nature--
Brunetto Latini--Francesco d'Accorso--Andrea de' Mozzi, Bishop
of Florence, 106
CANTO XVI.
The Seventh Circle continued--the Violent against Nature--
Guidoguerra, Tegghiaio Aldobrandi, and Jacopo Rusticucci--
the Cataract--the Cord--Geryon, 115
CANTO XVII.
The Seventh Circle continued--the Violent against Art--Usurers--
the descent on Geryon's back into the Eighth Circle, 123
CANTO XVIII.
The Eighth Circle, otherwise named Malebolge, which consists of
ten concentric Pits or Moats connected by bridges of rock--in
these are punished those guilty of Fraud of different kinds--
First Bolgia or Moat, where are Panders and Seducers, scourged
by Demons--Venedico Caccianimico--Jason--Second Bolgia, where
are Flatterers plunged in filth--Alessio Interminei, 130
CANTO XIX.
The Eighth Circle--Third Bolgia, where are the Simoniacs, stuck
head downwards in holes in the rock--Pope Nicholas III.--the
Donation of Constantine, 137
CANTO XX.
The Eighth Circle--Fourth Bolgia, where are Diviners and Sorcerers
in endless procession, with their heads twisted on their necks--
Amphiaräus--Tiresias--Aruns--Manto and the foundation of Mantua--
Eurypylus--Michael Scott--Guido Bonatti--Asdente, 145
CANTO XXI.
The Eighth Circle--Fifth Bolgia, where the Barrators, or corrupt
officials, are plunged in the boiling pitch which fills the
Bolgia--a Senator of Lucca is thrown in--the Malebranche, or
Demons who guard the Moat--the Devilish Escort, 153
CANTO XXII.
The Eighth Circle--Fifth Bolgia continued--the Navarese--trick
played by him on the Demons--Fra Gomita--Michael Zanche--the
Demons fall foul of one another, 161
CANTO XXIII.
The Eighth Circle--escape from the Fifth to the Sixth Bolgia,
where the Hypocrites walk at a snail's pace, weighed down
by Gilded Cloaks of lead--the Merry Friars Catalano and
Loderingo--Caiaphas, 168
CANTO XXIV.
The Eighth Circle--arduous passage over the cliff into the Seventh
Bolgia, where the Thieves are tormented by Serpents, and are
constantly undergoing a hideous metamorphosis--Vanni Fucci, 176
CANTO XXV.
The Eighth Circle--Seventh Bolgia continued--Cacus--Agnello
Brunelleschi, Buoso degli Abati, Puccio Sciancato, Cianfa Donati,
and Guercio Cavalcanti, 184
CANTO XXVI.
The Eighth Circle--Eighth Bolgia, where are the Evil Counsellors,
wrapped each in his own Flame--Ulysses tells how he met with
death, 192
CANTO XXVII.
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