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Dante's Inferno
Overview of Cantos and Characters
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Literature
Undergraduate 3
03/13/2012

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Dante
Definition
Married Francesca for social reasons
University of Bologna-Brunetto Latini (Canto 15)
At age 13 he met Beatrice
1295-elected to city council in Florence
Guelphs-supported pope as ruler for church (Dante)
Charged and exiled in 1302
Comedy began
Died in Ravenna in 1321
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The Poem

Definition

 

Papacy vs Holy Roman Empire

 

Papal claimed authority over government.

 

HRE said only church

 

Wanted Italy united into one central state

 

Term
Structure of Hell
Definition

 

Giant funnel-like hole created when Satan was cast from H heaven

 

Increasingly..

 

Hateful

 

Spiteful

 

Offensive

 

Murderous

 

Traitorous

 

Term

Punishments

Definition
Contrapasso
Term
When
Definition

At the age of 35

1300 (Jubilee) on Good Friday

Term

Leopard

Definition
Incontinence
Term
Lion
Definition
Violence
Term
She-Wolf
Definition
Malice
Term
Greyhound (Prophecy)
Definition
Savior of Italy, To chase she-wolf away
Term

But I am not like Aeneis and St. Paul before him

Definition
Feeling unprepared as he embarks on Journey with Virgil
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Before Hell
Definition

Waving banners with nothing on them around

Those who didn’t use intellect or were uncommitted

(worms eat their blood and tears)

Fallen angels

(Pope Celestine)

Term

Acheron

Definition

river of sorrow

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Charon
Definition

Ferryman to hell proper- tells Dante to leave because his boat can’t handle it and (still has hope for salvation)

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First Circle
Definition

 

(limbo)-Virtuous pagans, those born before Christianity, unbaptized,

 

Figures of honor (create their own envisioned afterlife)-Homer, Ovid, Horace, Lucan group salutes Dante as one of theirs.

 

 

Philosophers- Socrates, Plato, Cicero, Seneca, Aristotle…

 

 

Castle with Seven walls and Moats

 

Term

Second circle

Definition

 

(lustful)

Minos hears souls confess sins and wraps tail around him to cast the damned.

 

Meets Paolo and Francesca

Tossed and whirled by the winds of passion. Cleopatra, Dido, Helen, Tristan…

 

Term

Third Circle

Definition

 

(Gluttons)

Mud and mire guarded by Cerberus-three headed dog Meets Ciacco (the hog)-with negative prophecies about the fate of Florence-defeat and expulsion of one party.

 

Term

Plutus

Definition

(wealth of God and riches)-as descending to circle 4

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Fourth Circle

Definition

(Hoarders and Wasters)

Move giant boulders around at one another saying ”why do you hoard?’’ "why do you waste?’…

Fountain of strange, dark water…

Term

Marsh to River Styx (river of hate)

Definition

 

Separates upper from middle rings

 

Term

Wrathful

 

Definition

Open and Violent Hatred

Accosted by Filipo Argenti

Fight and battle one another (striking and biting)

More souls under water making bubbles with their cries

Term

Sullen

Definition

lives are sullen-choke on own rage

Term

Phlegius

Definition

Ferryman to Dys

Site of poets anger, enter boat

Term

City of Dys

Definition

Violent

Strike out at each other

Filipo Argenti

Term
At this point Dante...
Definition

 

NO LONGER feels pity

 

Term

Delay for help

Definition

Virgil cannot move forward (human reason isn’t enough to transcend)

Term

Furies

Definition

(Greek mythology).. Snake haired females…

Virgil hides Dante’s eyes from Medusa

Term

Circle Six

Definition

(Violence and Heretics)

Thousands in Burning tombs

 

Ferinata Uberti (ghibbilene enemy)

 

Cavalcante di cavalcanti-Father of friend Guido

 

Term

Descent into deep valley with Minotaur

Definition

Centaur-Virgil seeks guidance to cross Dante ..

Volunteers Nesses

Term

Circle Seven

Definition

(Violence)

against..

 

Neighbors, murderers, and the makers of war

Selves-suicides

God, Art, and Nature

 

Term

 

Phlegathon

 

Definition

Boiling blood

Where those violent against neighbors, tyrants, and war-makers reside,

Depth of river according to sin.

Sinners shot with arrow and brought back to proper depth.

Term

 

Second Round

 

 

Definition

 

(suicides)

Pier Della Vigna

 

      Judgement day:

Bodies will remain suspended on the trees that took their owners

 

Term

Third round

Definition

Capaneous

(blasphemer)

Term

Blasphemers, Sadomites, and usurers

Definition

 Brunetto Latini-asks for them not to stop walking so he won’t have to sit in the fire for 100 years.

Prophecy about coming exhile

Dante expresses love for his teacher

Only a few scholars can be mentioned and all were accused of sodomy.

Term

 

Political allusions to famous Guelphs.

Dante is becoming numb to sins and sinners.

 

Definition
Term
Cord is tossed into pit by Virgil.
Definition
This calls Geryon.
Term

Geryon

Definition

 

(symbol of fraud)

Face of man, body half reptile, half hairy beast with scorpion stinger.

 

Term

Circle 8

Definition

(10 Chasms/ditches/pouches)

Term

Panderers

Definition

 

Used others to serve their own purposes.

Walking in both directions and lashed by whips

Benedico Cachelenico-brought sister to serve desires of the marquee…

Jason- and Medea-seduce, impregnate, and leave.

 

Term

 

 Flatterers

 

Definition

Channel of excrement and sewage

Allexio del luca, Theas-a whore

Term

 

Simonists

 

Definition

Used position in church to sell things for personal, financial gain

Upside down in baptismal fonts with souls of feet on fire Pope Nicolas III who mistakes Dante for Boniface

Term

Fortune Tellers and Diviners

 

Definition
Heads on backwards and eyes clouded by tears
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Sinners of Graft

 

Definition
Plunged deep into a river of boiling pitch and slashed at by demons
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Hypocrites

 

Definition

religious men damned to walk endlessly in a circle wearing glittering leaden robes

Caiaphas crucified on ground and all other sinners must step on him to pass.

 

 

Two jovial friars tell the way to the seventh pouch where

 

 

 

 

 

Term

 

Thieves

 

Definition

Have their hands cut off and spend eternity with vipers that transform them into serpents by biting them

They must bite another sinner to take back a human form.

Term

 

Evil Counselors

 

Definition
Flames that consume the souls of the evil counselors Speaks to Ulysses
Term

 

Sowers of discord

 

Definition

Mutilated bodies

Mohammed and Ali walking in a circle

wounds knit only to be opened again…

 

 

 

Term

 

Falsifiers

 

Definition
Sinners plagued, some unable to move, some picking scabs off one another
Term

Ninth Circle

Definition

Giant Frozen Lake-Cacytus

Sinners are stuck

Dante believes he sees towers but these end up being the giants

Anteis-takes on palm and places at the bottom of well

Term

 

First Round

 

Definition

Caina

Frozen up to their necks in ice

Term

 

Second Round

 

Definition

Antineura

Frozen closer to heads

 

Dante Kicks Traitor in head and Traitor won’t tell name and Dante treats him savagely

 

Story of Count Aquillino gnawing the head and neck Archbishop Rugieri and his treatment of him in the upperworld

Term

Third Round

Definition

Ptolemeia

Traitors to guests

Soul begs him to take the ice visors formed from tears out of eyes

Dante promises to do so but after hearing story refuses.

Term

 

Fourth Round

 

Definition

Final pit of hell

Traitors to Masters fixed in ice.

Satan, three heads, each of which is chewing a traitor-Judas, Brutus, and cassias

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