Inferno: Canto Iii: From The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

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INFERNO: CANTO III

From the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri


INFERNO
From the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
FIRST CIRCLE: LIMBO
Virtuous Pagans,
Unbaptized

Punishment: Stuck
with grief from lack
of God.
SECOND CIRCLE: LUSTFUL

Punishment: Blown
by violent and
endless wind
THIRD CIRCLE: GLUTTONS

Punishment:
Bombarded with rain,
hail, and black.
FOURTH CIRCLE: GREEDY

Punishment:
1. Hoarders – push boulders
to the center of the circle
2. Spenders- forced to push
back out of the center of
the circle.
FIFTH CIRCLE: WRATHFUL AND
SULLEN

Punishment:
1. Wrathful- fighting
one another.
2. Sullen- Sunk at the
bottom of river Styx
SIXTH CIRCLE: HERETICS

Punishment:
Locked in burning
coffins.
SEVENTH CIRCLE: VIOLENT
Punishment:
1. Violent against other- submerged
in boiling blood.
2. Suicide- transformed into suicide
bushes ripped by harpies.
3. Blasphemers, sodomites- -
condemned to a desert of blazing
sand with constant rain of fire.
EIGHTH CIRCLE: FRAUD
Punishment:
1. Seducers –
whipped
2. Flatterers-
immersed in
excrements.
EIGHTH CIRCLE: FRAUD
Punishment:
3. Simoniacs – placed
in holes upside down
with their legs
exposed in fire.
EIGHTH CIRCLE: FRAUD
Punishment:
4. Diviners / fortune
tellers – contorted until
their heads are backward
and they cry until they get
blind.
EIGHTH CIRCLE: FRAUD
Punishment:
5. Corrupt Politicians–
submerged in a pool of
pitch.
6. Hypocrites- forced to
wear cloak of lead.
EIGHTH CIRCLE: FRAUD
Punishment:
7. Thieves –chased and
bitten by reptiles.
EIGHTH CIRCLE: FRAUD
Punishment:
8. False Counselors –
wrapped in flames.
EIGHTH CIRCLE: FRAUD
Punishment:
9. Schismatics– Split from
chin to groin.
10. Falsifiers - live in a pit
of disease that smells of
festering and rotting limbs
while endlessly scratching
their wounded skin.
NINTH CIRCLE: TREACHERY
Punishment:
1. Caina (betrayers of
kin) – lodged head first
in blocks of ice.
NINTH CIRCLE: TEACHERY
Punishment:
2. Antenora (betrayers of
country) – forced to eat one
another.
3. Center of the pit- chewed
in Lucifer’s jaw.
NINTH CIRCLE: TEACHERY
Punishment:
4. PTOLEMEA- (betrayers
of guests) – lodged head up
in blocks of ice freezing
their eyes so they can’t cry.
NINTH CIRCLE: TREACHERY
Punishment:
4. Judecca (betrayers of
benefactors) – lodged
completely within blocks of
ice.

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