Inferno

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Inferno

• By Dante Alighieri

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Dark Wood Outside Hell

• Canto I, II
• Dante wakes up here
• 3 Animals
• Lion
• Leopard
• She-wolf
• Meets Virgil

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Vestibule Outside Hell

• Canto III
• Inscription on Gate
• Souls who were neither for or against God are
  trapped here ? NEUTRALITY
• People who were opportunists ? flip- flopped from
  side of good or evil when it suited them

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1st Ring Limbo (Canto IV)

• Luke Warm. Neither sinned nor believed in Christ.
  
• Heaven does not claim them, Hell does not want
  them.

• Virgil and all other people who died before
  Christ reside here

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2nd Ring Lustful (Canto V)

• Blown about in darkness.
• Constant motion never be with their lover

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3rd Ring Gluttonous (Canto VI)

• Deprived of individuality. Each is alone, cold,
  and miserable.

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4th Ring Avaricious (Canto VII)

• Greedy
• Must roll their wealth back and forth forever.

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5th Ring Wrathful and Sullen (Canto VIII)

• Wrathful
• Muddy figures attack one another.
• Sullen
• Sink beneath the surface in filthy slime.

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Marsh of Styx
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Harrowing of Hell
This insolence of theirs (the fallen angels) is
nothing new / they used it once at a less secret
gate / which is, and will forever be, unlocked
(VIII.124-6)
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Angel opens gates to Dis (Canto IX)

• City of Hell
• Outside of Dis sins WITHOUT malice (circles
  1-5)
• Inside Dis sins WITH malice (circles 6-9)

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6th Ring Heretics (Canto X-XI)

• Confined in tombs.
• Heretics chose their own teachings instead of
  following the teachings of the Church

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7th Ring Violent (Canto XII)

• 1) AGAINST OTHERS
• Immersed in a river of boiling blood.

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7th Ring Violent (Canto XIII)

• 2) AGAINST SELF
• Twisted plants that cannot move

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7th Ring Violent (Canto XIV)

• 3) AGAINST GOD Must lie facing upward toward
  heaven

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8th Ring Fraudulent

• SEDUCERS
• Driven by horned demons

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8th Ring Fraudulent

• FLATTERERS
• Forced to wallow in a floor of excrement

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8th Ring Fraudulent

• SIMONISTS (Those who attempt to purchase the
  power of the holy spirit)
• Buried head down and burned on the soles of their
  feet.

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8th Ring Fraudulent

• FORTUNE TELLERS/ SOOTHSAYERS
• Bodies distorted so that the head is twisted
  around to only view his back.

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8th Ring Fraudulent

• GRAFTERS
• Dipped into boiling tar. Demon holds down the
  sinners with a pitchfork.

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8th Ring Fraudulent

• HYPOCRITES
• Must always walk at a steady pace.

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8th Ring Fraudulent

• THEIVES
• Snakes coil and bind these sinners

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8th Ring Fraudulent

• DECIEVERS
• Wrapped in fire

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8th Ring Fraudulent

• SCANDALS
• Hacked to pieces, put back together, and hacked
  up again.

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8th Ring Fraudulent

• FALSIFIERS
• Made insane plagued with all types of illnesses
  and diseases.

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9th Ring Treachery (Canto XXXII)

• TO FAMILY, COUNTRY, AND FRIENDS
• Frozen in a sheet of ice with only their face
  exposed to show the pain.

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Center of 9th Ring Lucifer