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    This document summarizes Canto 12-17 of Dante's Inferno, describing the 7th circle of Hell which punishes those who were violent against others, themselves, God, nature or art. It outlines the terrain, sins and punishments for each ring, including boiling in blood, being turned into gnarled trees, and being burned by fiery rain. It also notes some of the significant people, objects and monsters encountered, such as Alexander the Great, Dionysius, the Harpies and Geryon.

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    This document summarizes Canto 12-17 of Dante's Inferno, describing the 7th circle of Hell which punishes those who were violent against others, themselves, God, nature or art. It outlines the terrain, sins and punishments for each ring, including boiling in blood, being turned into gnarled trees, and being burned by fiery rain. It also notes some of the significant people, objects and monsters encountered, such as Alexander the Great, Dionysius, the Harpies and Geryon.

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    An overview of Circle 7 (the Violent) of Dante's Inferno.

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    This document summarizes Canto 12-17 of Dante's Inferno, describing the 7th circle of Hell which punishes those who were violent against others, themselves, God, nature or art. It outlines the terrain, sins and punishments for each ring, including boiling in blood, being turned into gnarled trees, and being burned by fiery rain. It also notes some of the significant people, objects and monsters encountered, such as Alexander the Great, Dionysius, the Harpies and Geryon.

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    Dante's Inferno, Circle 7

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    This document summarizes Canto 12-17 of Dante's Inferno, describing the 7th circle of Hell which punishes those who were violent against others, themselves, God, nature or art. It outlines the terrain, sins and punishments for each ring, including boiling in blood, being turned into gnarled trees, and being burned by fiery rain. It also notes some of the significant people, objects and monsters encountered, such as Alexander the Great, Dionysius, the Harpies and Geryon.

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    Circle 7: The Violent

    Morgan Walker, Amy Loy, Grant Shealy

    The Minotaur-Gustave Dor

    Canto XII, Circle 7, Ring 1: Violent Against Others


    Terrain: river of blood...boiling... (XII.74) Sin: violent against others-Whoe'er by violence doth injure others." (XII.74) Punishment: boiling in river of blood, centaurs shoot sinners with arrows (XII.75) Fits Crime: literal wallowing in blood, violence from centaurs as they were violent
    to others

    Sinners: Alexander the Great and Dionysius I Reaction: Dante observes the murderers but
    does not react. (XII.94)

    of Syracuse-Alexander, and fierce Dionysius" (XII.76)

    Important people, objects, or monsters:


    Minotaur-"infamy of Crete" (XII.72), Centaurs (Chiron and Nessus) (XII.74)

    Loy, Shealy, Walker

    The Inferno, Canto 12-Gustave Dor

    Canto XIII, Circle 7, Ring 2: Violent Against Self


    Terrain: "...within a wood...not branches smooth but gnarled and intertangled." (XIII.78) Sin: violent against themselves/their substance: suicides, squanderers. (XI.68) Punishment: Suicides: turned into trees and "[The Harpies] make laments upon [them]" (XIII.78), can
    only speak when broken

    Fits Crime: They destroyed themselves so they were


    eternally destroyed (XIII.82)

    Squanderers: naked, chased and dismembered by "she-mastiffs" (XIII.78)

    Sinners: Pierre delle Vigne "I am the one who both


    keys had...of Fredrick's heart" (XIII.80), Arcolano of Siena and Jacopo de Santo Andrea-famous squanderers (XIII.82-3) pity is in my heart" (XIII.82-83)

    Reaction: Dante feels sorry for the suicides "such Other Important People, Objects, or Monsters:
    Loy, Shealy, Walker
    Harpies-part women, part bird and reptile (XIII.78)

    The Inferno, Canto 13-Gustave Dor

    Cantos XIV-XVII, Circle 7, Ring 3: Violent Against God, Nature, or Art


    Terrain: burning sand, fiery rain (XIV.85-6) Reaction: Dante shows respect to many of the sodomites but feels revulsion at the sight of the Sin: violent against God/Nature/Art usurers (XVI. 124) blasphemers (XIV.87) Other Important People, Objects, or Monsters: homosexuals ("Sodomites") (XV.114) Old Man of Crete (XV.88)-origin of all rivers in usurers (XI.71) Hell Punishment: Flakes of fire rain down (XIV. Rope/cord-summons Geryon (XV.101) 86) Geryon, monster of Fraud (XVI.102) provides Blasphemersstretched out on the sand Homosexuals- run in circles Usurers- huddled on the ground Fits Crime: fiery rain symbolizes God's
    wrath.

    Dante and Virgil passage to Circle 8 (XVII.107)

    Sinners: Capaneus (XIV.87), Brunetto Latini


    (Dante's teacher) (XV.92) and noble Florentines,

    Loy, Shealy, Walker

    Brunetto Latini-Gustave Dor

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