1st Circle Limbo Only sin is to be unbaptized. Homer, and other Poets
7 encircling walls, illum- and other Philosophers. Exist with desire but without
inated by fire hope.

2nd Circle Minos, Paolo & Francesca lustfull. Semiramide, Dido, Cleopatra, Helen, Paris,
incessant winds. Tristan

3rd Circle Ciacco, Cerebus gluttens
filthy rain, snow & hail.

4th Circle polluted swamp, Styx. avarice & prodigal. Plutus, Phlegyas

5th Circle Styx, Wall of Dis . wrathfull & sullen. Filippo Argenti

6th Circle vast plain. heretics. Furies, demons, heavenly messenger
Farinata degli Uberti, Cavalcanti, Fredrick II,
Ottaviano degli Ubertini, Pope Anastasius II.
Entombed.
7th Circle
1st Circlet landslide, fossa, river violent against neighbor. Chiron, Nessus, Alexander,
Phlegethon. Attila. Immersed in river of blood.

2nd Circlet woods without greenery. violent against self, suicide. Harpies, Pier delle
Vigne, a Florentine suicide. Transformed into
trees which feed the harpies.

3rd Circlet flamming sand. violent against God. Capaneus. divided into 3
types: bestiality, sodomites, and usurers. Brunetto
Latini, Dante’s friend and advisor.

8th Circle
1st & 2ndBolgia at the limit of high seducers and panderers. Venedico Cacciannemice,
hell from low. Alessio Interminelli, Jason, Thais, demons. Whipped
with violence by devils. Immersed in feces.

3rd Bolgia high walls & steep rocks simonists. Nicholas III. Churchmen who have taken
deep pit, difficult access advantage of their position for profit. Held upside-
down within a rock with feet exposed to flames.

4th Bolgia no particular details of this magicians & diviners. Manto, Euryplus, Michael
site are furnished in the text Scott, Guido Bonatti, Asdente. Uninterrupted crying,
deformed bodies with heads turned backwards,
forcing the condemned to walk backward.

5th Bolgia poor visibility, bottom full barratters. the Malebranche (Malacoda, etc), Old
of boiling pitch or tar man of Saint Zita, friar Gomita, Michele Zanche.
barratters are tricksters & swindlers who profit from their public offices. They’re immersed in the boiling pitch and harassed by the Malebranche (evil clawed) with their hooks.

6th Bolgia narrow place at the foot of hypocrites. Catalano de’Malavolti, Loderigo degli
the rocky wall where there Andalo, Caiaphus, Anna, members of the synod.
are stones of the crumbled Condemned to wear heavy leaden cloaks which
bridge makes them walk very slowly. Crucified into the ground is Caiaphus who condemned Jesus to death.

7th Bolgia dark chasm filled with thieves. Vanni Fucci, Cacus, Cianfa de’Donati,
hideous serpents Guericio de’Cavalcanti, Agnello de’Brunelleschi,
Buoso degli Abati, Puccio de’Galigai. Tied by
serpents with hands behind their backs. Transformed
into serpent shapes.

8th Bolgia profound silence, darkness, fraudulent advisors. Ulysses, Guido da Montefeltro.
lit up by large flames within living within and capture by fire.
which are hidden the damned
souls

9th Bolgia Dante observes this chasm disseminators of scandal and schism. Mohammed,
from a bridge but does not Pier da Medicina, Mosca de’Lamberti, Bertran de
describe it Born, Ali, Curio. Filleted by demons with swords;
after healing the wounds are immediately re-sliced by another demon.
alchemist and falsifiers of metals. piled in heaps
upon the earth, tormented by skin infestations of
scabies, leprosy – continuous itching with raw sores.

10th Bolgia not described alchemist and falsifiers of metals. Griffolino
d’Arezzo, Capocchio piled in heaps
upon the earth, tormented by skin infestations of
scabies, leprosy – continuous itching with raw sores.

falsifiers of person. Gianni Schicchi, Myrrha. forced
to continually run & be furiously on the move.

falsifiers of money. Master Adam. Completely sedentary, unable to move, swollen up with dropsy.

falsifiers of words. Sinon, Nimrod, Ephialtes, Anteus,
Tityos, Typhon. attacked by high fevers, and putrification.

9th Circle completely iced over
Cocytus river.

1st Zone: Caina traitors against family. Camicion dei Pazzi, Alesandro and
Napoleone degli Alberti, Mordret, Focaccia dei Cancellieri,
Sassolo Mascheroni. Immersed in ice with only their heads above. Holding their faces down with tears freezing on the ice.

2nd Zone: Antenora traitors against country .Bocca degli Abati, etc. same as above
but with their face up and the ice freezing upon their eyes thus blinding them.

3rd Zone: Ptolemy traitors against hospitality. Alberigo brothers, Branca d’Oria.
with their tears freezing internally.

4th Zone: Judecca traitors against God. Lucifer, with Judas, Brutus and Cassius
in his three mouths.bitting them continuously.

Passage through the natural cavern to the other side of the world. à And then we went out to gaze again upon the stars.