Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete

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The Divine Comedy

    of Dante Alighieri

    Translated by
    HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW


    Contents

    INFERNO
    Canto I. The Dark Forest. The Hill of Difficulty. The Panther, the
     Lion, and the Wolf. Virgil.
    Canto II. The Descent. Dante’s Protest and Virgil’s Appeal. The
     Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight.
    Canto III. The Gate of Hell. The Inefficient or Indifferent. Pope
     Celestine V. The Shores of Acheron. Charon. The Earthquake and the
     Swoon.
    Canto IV. The First Circle, Limbo: Virtuous Pagans and the
     Unbaptized. The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. The
     Noble Castle of Philosophy.
    Canto V. The Second Circle: The Wanton. Minos. The Infernal
     Hurricane. Francesca da Rimini.
    Canto VI. The Third Circle: The Gluttonous. Cerberus. The Eternal
     Rain. Ciacco. Florence.
    Canto VII. The Fourth Circle: The Avaricious and the Prodigal.
     Plutus. Fortune and her Wheel. The Fifth Circle: The Irascible and
     the Sullen. Styx.
    Canto VIII. Phlegyas. Philippo Argenti. The Gate of the City of
     Dis.
    Canto IX. The Furies and Medusa. The Angel. The City of Dis. The
     Sixth Circle: Heresiarchs.
    Canto X. Farinata and Cavalcante de’ Cavalcanti. Discourse on the
     Knowledge of the Damned.
    Canto XI. The Broken Rocks. Pope Anastasius. General Description of
     the Inferno and its Divisions.
    Canto XII. The Minotaur. The Seventh Circle: The Violent. The River
     Phlegethon. The Violent against their Neighbours. The Centaurs.
     Tyrants.
    Canto XIII. The Wood of Thorns. The Harpies. The Violent against
     themselves. Suicides. Pier della Vigna. Lano and Jacopo da Sant’
     Andrea.
    Canto XIV. The Sand Waste and the Rain of Fire. The Violent against
     God. Capaneus. The Statue of Time, and the Four Infernal Rivers.
    Canto XV. The Violent against Nature. Brunetto Latini.
    Canto XVI. Guidoguerra, Aldobrandi, and Rusticucci. Cataract of
     the River of Blood.
    Canto XVII. Geryon. The Violent against Art. Usurers. Descent into
     the Abyss of Malebolge.
    Canto XVIII. The Eighth Circle, Malebolge: The Fraudulent and the
     Malicious. The First Bolgia: Seducers and Panders. Venedico
     Caccianimico. Jason. The Second Bolgia: Flatterers. Allessio
     Interminelli. Thais.
    Canto XIX. The Third Bolgia: Simoniacs. Pope Nicholas III. Dante’s
     Reproof of corrupt Prelates.
    Canto XX. The Fourth Bolgia: Soothsayers. Amphiaraus, Tiresias,
     Aruns, Manto, Eryphylus, Michael Scott, Guido Bonatti, and
     Asdente. Virgil reproaches Dante’s Pity. Mantua’s Foundation.
    Canto XXI. The Fifth Bolgia: Peculators. The Elder of Santa Zita.
     Malacoda and other Devils.
    Canto XXII. Ciampolo, Friar Gomita, and Michael Zanche. The
     Malabranche quarrel.
    Canto XXIII. Escape from the Malabranche. The Sixth Bolgia:
     Hypocrites. Catalano and Loderingo. Caiaphas.
    Canto XXIV. The Seventh Bolgia: Thieves.