The Eighth Circle--Eighth Bolgia continued--Guido of Montefeltro-- the Cities of Romagna--Guido and Boniface VIII., 200 CANTO XXVIII. The Eighth Circle--Ninth Bolgia, where the Schismatics in Church and State are for ever being dismembered--Mahomet--Fra Dolcino-- Pier da Medicina--Curio--Mosca--Bertrand de Born, 209 CANTO XXIX. The Eighth Circle--Ninth Bolgia continued--Geri del Bello--Tenth Bolgia, where Counterfeiters of various kinds, as Alchemists and Forgers, are tormented with loathsome diseases--Griffolino of Arezzo--Capocchio on the Sienese, 217 CANTO XXX. The Eighth Circle--Tenth Bolgia continued--Myrrha--Gianni Schicchi--Master Adam and his confession--Sinon, 225 CANTO XXXI. The Ninth Circle, outside of which they remain till the end of this Canto--this, the Central Pit of Inferno, is encircled and guarded by Giants--Nimrod, Ephialtes, and Antæus--entrance to the Pit, 233 CANTO XXXII. The Ninth Circle--that of the Traitors, is divided into four concentric rings, in which the sinners are plunged more or less deep in the ice of the frozen Cocytus--the Outer Ring is Caïna, where are those who contrived the murder of their Kindred-- Camicion de' Pazzi--Antenora, the Second Ring, where are such as betrayed their Country--Bocca degli Abati--Buoso da Duera-- Ugolino, 241 CANTO XXXIII. The Ninth Circle--Antenora continued--Ugolino and his tale--the Third Ring, or Ptolomæa, where are those treacherous to their Friends--Friar Alberigo--Branca d'Oria, 249 CANTO XXXIV. The Ninth Circle--the Fourth Ring or Judecca, the deepest point of the Inferno and the Centre of the Universe--it is the place of those treacherous to their Lords or Benefactors--Lucifer with Judas, Brutus, and Cassius hanging from his mouths--passage through the Centre of the Earth--ascent from the depths to the light of the stars in the Southern Hemisphere, 260 INDEX, 269 FLORENCE AND DANTE.