Circle 1: Limbo Circle 2: The Lustful Circle 3: The Gluttons Circle 4: The Avaricious and the Prodigal Circle 5: The Wrathful and the Sullen Circle 6: Heretics Circle 7: The Violent Circle 8: The Fraudulent Circle 9: The Treacherous Ante Hell and Neutrals (Outer Circle) Outer Rim of Hell
they must chase constantly after a blank banner. Flies and wasps Uncommitted, souls of continually bite them, and writhing people who in life did worms consume the blood and tears nothing, neither for that flow from them. good nor evil Significant people: (indecisive, no real Fallen angels beliefs, those who dont Celestine V choose sides) Pontus Pilate CROSSING THE ACHERON RIVER WITH CHARON (HADES) Circle 1: Outskirts of Hell Proper Punishment:None Neutral, lifeless place Suspended Souls of unbaptized infants (sospesi) between Virtuous pagans or the states of honorable men who lived condemnation and before Christ salvation Limbo is a somewhat pleasant place, with fields Significant people: and a castle Virgil, the guide, Denied God's presence for Homer, Aristotle, eternity Saladin, Euclid LIMBO
Virgil, the guide; Homer;
Aristotle; Saladin, Euclid CIRCLE 2: LUST The Carnal Sinners Punishment: They are the first ones to be truly LUSTFUL, SENSUAL punished in Hell Minos: Judge of Hell Exist in an eternal storm, blown Each sinner confesses about by the winds of a to him hurricane Reflects sexual sin and Uses his tail to punishes it indicate the position Significant people: of Hell the sinner is to Helen of Troy, Achilles occupy Cleopatra, Paris, Tristan Warns Dante not to go Francesca and Paolo any further (Murdered lovers) MINOS: THE JUDGE CIRCLE 3: GLUTTONY The Carnal Sinners: Punishment: The GLUTTONOUS Plagued with filthy Sensual rain, sleet or frozen gratification rain, snow Ate and drank Wallow in mud and unrepentantly to filth excess Cerberus claws the Cerberus, 3- sinners making their headed dog, souls howl in pain guards and Significant people: punishes Ciacco CERBERUS: THE GUARD & THE PUNISHER CIRCLE 4: THE AVARICIOUS & PRODIGAL The Carnal Sinners: Punishment: The AVARICIOUS Deadlocked in a battle of (HOARDERS - opposites avaricious or miserly Push heavy stones in who hoarded opposite direction possessions) why do you hold? The PRODIGALS (SPENDERS - who why do you spend? squandered their Significant people: possessions) Allister Toomey, groups Plutus (Greek god of of bridge builders and wealth) demon-guard destroyers PLUTUS (Greek god of wealth) demon-guard CIRCLE 5: WRATHFUL & SULLEN Punishment: The River STYX Wrathful (ruthlessly attacking WRATHFUL / SULLEN one another) STYX Float in Styx Snarl and rend The lower parts of Hell themselves are contained within Sullen (stew below the surface the walls of the city of of the muddy swamp) Dis Submerged in Styx Significant people: Phlegyas, Punished within Dis are Filippo Argenti, Fallen active (rather than Angels, Furies and Medusa, passive) sins Heaven's Messenger Dante and Virgil Dante and Virgil Leave the circles of outer Hell Met by furies cross the Styx Messenger of Ferried by Phlegyas grace opens Reach gate of inner gates for them Hell Enter gates of City of Dis lower Hell Fallen angels hover above gates THE WRATHFULS CIRCLE 6: HERESY HERETICS Punishment: Deniers of Flaming tombs immortality Significant people: Cavalcanti (Father people who didnt of Dantes friend), believe in life Epicurus, Emperor after death, Frederick II, The heaven or hell Cardinal, Farinata PHLEGETHON degli Uberti, Ghibilline leader THE HERETICS CIRCLE 7: VIOLENCE Outer ring: This ring houses the violent against people and property (against neighbors, tyrants, murderers Middle ring: In this ring are the suicides (the violent against self); unique among the dead, the suicides will not be bodily resurrected after the final judgment. Squanderers, violent against their possessions Inner ring: Here the violent against God (blasphemers) and the violent against nature (sodomites and, as explained in the sixth circle, usurers) CIRCLE 7: VIOLENCE (OUTER RING) VIOLENT Punishment: Those who Submerged in boiling river harmed others of blood (MURDER) Centaurs shoot arrows at any who come up for relief Chiron is leader Significant people: Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, Ezzelino Circle 7 (Middle Ring) Punishment: VIOLENT Gloomy wood Those who harmed self Damned are trees (SUICIDE) Harpies nest in trees Self-destructive Those self-destructive: Chased by devil dogs and torn to pieces Significant people: Pier della Vigne Circle 7 (Inner Ring) VIOLENT Punishment: Those who Scorching desert were guilty of Flakes of flame BLASPHEMY falling Lie down Significant people: Capaneus Circle 7 (Inner Ring) VIOLENT Punishment: Those who Scorching desert were guilty Flakes of flame falling of SODOMY Continuously running Significant people: Brunetto Latini Circle 7 (Inner Ring) Punishment: VIOLENT Scorching desert Those who Flakes of flame falling were guilty of Sit, bent over USURY Eyes fixed on money pouches around their Lending necks money at any Significant people: price Jacopo Rusticucci Guido Guerra Teggahiaio Aldobrandi THE VIOLENT CIRCLE 8: FRAUD The fraudulentthose guilty of deliberate, knowing evilare located in a circle named Malebolge ("Evil Pockets"), divided into ten Bolgie, or ditches of stone, with bridges spanning the ditches: THE FRAUDULENT Circle 8 (Malebolge): Pouch 1 FRAUD Punishment: PANDERERS Whipped by Sell people for sexual favors horned demons pimps Significant people: SEDUCERS Venedico Gain sexual favors for self Jason Circle 8 (Malebolge): Pouch 2 FRAUD Punishment: FLATTERERS Immersed in also exploited excrement other people, this Significant time using language people: Thais Circle 8 (Malebolge): Pouch 3 FRAUD Punishment: SIMONIACS Immersed headfirst in holes (committed simony) Feet are burning Those who Significant people: corrupt the Pope Nicholas III things of God Other popes Circle 8 (Malebolge): Pouch 4 FRAUD Punishment: SOOTHSAYERS MAGICIANS Heads on AUGERS backwards (Sorcerers, astrologers, and false Significant prophets) people: Those who tried to make the mind of God Manto subject to their will Circle 8 (Malebolge): Pouch 5 FRAUD Punishment: GRAFTERS Boiling pitch Deceiving demons Political (Malebranche) poke anyone who tries to rise corruption with pitchforks Significant people: Senator of Lucca Ciampolo of Navarre Circle 8 (Malebolge): Pouch 6 Punishment: FRAUD Leaden cloaks HYPOCRITES Walk around narrow track Significant people: Caiaphas Annas monks Circle 8 (Malebolge): Pouch 7 Punishment: FRAUD Fiery serpents THIEVES Wrapped around souls Hands bound behind them Bite souls who then burst into flames Significant people: Vanni Fucci, Agnello, Buoso, Puccio, Francesco de Cavalcanti Circle 8 (Malebolge): Pouch 8 FRAUD Punishment: EVIL Enflamed souls ADVISERS (or Significant people: evil councilors Ulysses Steal counsel Diomedes of God for Guido da Montefeltro low purposes Circle 8 (Malebolge): Pouch 9 FRAUD Punishment: DIVIDERS Mutilated Tear apart what God has Wounds are healed meant to be united after making the full SOWERS OF DISCORD circult Religious discord Wounds reopened by Political discord devil with sword Family Discord Significant people: In the ninth Bolgia, a sword- Muhammad wielding demon hacks at the Mosca sowers of scandal and schism Bertran de Born Circle 8 (Malebolge): Pouch 10 FRAUD Punishment: FALSIFIERS Madness ALCHEMISTS Ills of mind and body Significant people: IMPERSONA- Gainni Schicchi TORS Capocchio COUNTER- Master Adam FEITERS Potiphers wife LIARS Sinon CIRCLE 9: TREACHERY Round 1 is named Cana, Traitors to kindred Round 2 is named Antenora, Traitors to political entities, such as party, city, or country Round 3 is named Ptolomea Traitors to their guests are punished here Round 4 is named Judecca Here are the traitors to their lords and benefactors Circle 9: Caina TRAITORS Punishment: Encased in ice up to To KIN neck Heads bent down Significant people: Camicion de Pazzi Two brothers Circle 9: Antenora TRAITORS Punishment: To CITY Encased in ice up to neck Heads turned upward Significant people: Bocca Sassol Ugolino Archbishop Ruggieri Circle 9: Tolomea TRAITORS Punishment: Frozen in ice To GUESTS On backs, heads up Tears freeze in eye sockets Significant people: Friar Alberigo Branca DOria Circle 9: Judecca TRAITORS Punishment: To BENE- Completely sealed under ice FACTORS Satan fixed in the middle, waist deep in ice, continuously chews up three with his mouths Significant people: Judas Brutus Cassius THE TREACHEROUS In the very centre of Hell, condemned for committing the ultimate sin (personal treachery against God), is Satan. Satan is described as a giant, terrifying beast with three faces, one red, one black, and one a pale yellow: Each face has a mouth that chews on a prominent traitor, with Brutus and Cassius In the central, most vicious mouth is Judas Iscariotthe namesake of Judecca and the betrayer of Jesus The two poets escape Hell by climbing down Satan's ragged fur, passing through the centre of the earth and they emerge in the other hemisphere beneath a sky studded with stars. Abandon all hope, all ye who enter
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