1. Dante’s Inferno
The Divine Comedy

2. Canto I
Midway through our life’s journey, I awoke to find myself lost in a dark wood
The Leopard, Lion, and She-Wolf
Virgil and the Greyhound
It is rather by another path that the poet will find the “sunlight”
Dante follows Virgil

3. Canto II Only Aeneas and St. Paul have been here before, I’m scared
The support Dante has
Beatrice
Santa Lucia
The Virgin Mary

4. Canto III The Vestibule Contrapasso The River Acheron Charon
A blast of wind

5. 1st Circle Limbo The Virtuous Pagans Virgil is from here
No Punishment-only place in Hell where there isn’t except that they know there is a better place.
Homer, Horace, Ovid and Lucan (Dante’s Heroes)
Plato, Caesar, Aristotle, Aeneas, Electra and notably- Saladin

6. 2nd Ring Minos- the judge A dark wind The Lustful
Helen, Paris, Achilles
Dante sees the “lovers”
Francesca da Rimini and Paolo
“For Pity’s Sake”

7. 3rd Circle Dante awakens Virgil is getting pissed Cerberus (Fluffy)
The Gluttons
Ciacco and prophecies

8. 4th Ring Plutus (Monkey-Chicken) but not in the picture
Rolling thunder
The Prodigal and Miserly
“Why spend, why save”
Descent to the 5th ring and river Styx

9. Ring 5 The Wrathful and Slothful Wrathful tear at and fight each other
Slothful are constantly drowning in the mud
To the tower

10. The River Crossing At the tower a signal is sent
Phlegyas soon comes into sight
Philippo Argenti
Lesson’s learned
To Middle Hell
City of Dis
Virgil negotiates

11. City of Dis Help is on the way The Furies Call the Gorgon (Medusa)
The blast
The descent
An opening
Into the city
Burning Sarcophogi
Arch-Heretics

12. Farinata A fellow Florentine? Cavalcante de Cavalcante
More conversation
The Stench of below/lets catch our breath
Pope Anastasius
the grand pland, we gotta go!

13. 7th ring Down the slope Minotaur Ring of the Violent
Phlegathon and the Centaurs
violent toward others
Chiron offers help
Nessus takes the poets for a ride

14. The dark wood Howling wind? Creepy trees Harpies
The naked guy and the dogs
Pier Delle Vigne

15. The burning sands
Three types
Blasphemers
Userers
Into the desert

16. The burning sands
Ser Bernetto Latini
What is going on here?

17. The Waterfall
To the edge

18. Dante’s Inferno
Lower Hell

19. The Poets at the dropoff
Virgil takes Dante’s belt and throws it over the cliff
The poets have a seat and Virgil explains that a nearby waterfall is the culmination of the three rivers of Hell and that it pours into the abyss.
Soon Dante hears a flapping sound and Geryon emerges out of the darkness of the pit.
Geryon is another mythical beast that is now the “elevator” to lower Hell. He has the face of a very attractive man and a scorpion’s body. He would lure women up to him and then kill and devour them.
The poets jump on his back and he takes off flying them down to lower hell

21. Above the 8th ring
As they fly down, Dante gets a view from over the 8th ring and realizes that it is made up of several subdivisions
These subdivisions are called Malebolgia (pockets of evil).
The poets land at the edge of the 8th ring and Virgil tells Dante that they are about to enter the ring of Simple Fraud.

22. The malebolgia of the 8th ring
8 (a) Panderers (prostitutes and pimps)
These souls make a double line and one is going clockwise the other counterclockwise.
Soon Dante hears a flapping sound and Geryon emerges out of the darkness of the pit. There are demons in the middle and as the souls march in their directions, they are whipped with each step.
The false love that they gave (pleasure) is now mirrored by them receiving pain with each step

23. 8th ring
8 (b) Flatterers
These souls who in life gave false compliments are now forced very pig-like (mirroring gluttons) to crawl around in excrement.
Dante hurries by these as the stench is too great for him to linger very long.

24. 8th ring 8 (c) Simonists (evil churchmen)
Buried upside down in holes on top of each other. The man on top has fire jumping from foot to foot
Dante does climb down into this ring as the site interests him and finds to his surprise that there are several Popes there.
Soothsayers (fortune tellers)
They have their heads twisted on backwards so that they can only look behind them. They are also denied the “site” of Hell in that they cannot see into the future.

25. 8th ring 8 (e) Grafters (con men)
Perhaps the next most famous scene next to Francesca in ring 2
The Grafters are being boiled in tar (makes you think of what happened to con men who were caught in those days being tarred and feathered).
The are being guarded by devils with pitchforks
The poets are confronted by these devils about being there but truthfully, the devils are really stupid.
They tell the poets that the bridge over this section is broke and they have to go way around to the other side to cross.

26. 8th ring 8 (e) Grafters (con men) A patrol of devils take them around
Along the way they spot a group of grafters setting on the side and try to catch them.
They catch one and he convinces them to let him go to get his friends.
The poets take this opportunity to escape and leave the ring behind. Virgil lets Dante know they have a time limit.

28. 8th ring 8 (f) Hypocrites Thieves
They are encased in lead and have huge weights around them.
As these people were “shifty” in life, they now cannot move anywhere very quickly at all.
Thieves
These “snakes in the grass” are being tormented by serpents. They are in a barren rocky landscape full of snakes that when they strike, the thief bursts into flames and burns to ashes only to reform into a snake and the serpent that bit him turns into a human.

30. 8th ring 8 (h) Decievers (fraud by action)
Souls are in pyres and on fire. Mirrors the Heretics from above
8 (i) Sowers of Discord (instigators)
These are people that create chaos. Here we find Muhammed who along with the others walk in a circle to find themselves facing a huge devil with a large sword, as they walk up, he cleaves them and off they go to walk and heal until they come back to him and it goes again.

32. 8th ring 8 (j) Falsifiers (general liars- so most of you!!)
It is very hot in this barren place and they are afflicted with every know disease. They suffer from fever and are covered in vomit and diharrhea, most are babbling incoherently.

34. Toward the 9th ring
Again there is a long walk from 8 to 9 to show the difference between simple fraud (where they were) to complex fraud (the last ring).
As the poets walk Dante begins to feel colder.
Soon they hear a low babbling coming from in front of them.
They are approaching the ring of giants.
Anteneas will let them down into the pit of Hell-the 9th ring.

36. 9th ring Cocytus (complex fraud)
This is a vast frozen lake where it is snowing with the souls frozen in various ways.
Caina - Betrayers of Kin. Francesca’s husband is here.
Antenora – Betrayers of Country- Count Ugolino
Ptolemea – Betrayers of Guests- Archbishop Ruggieri
These last two make one of the grossest sights that Dante sees outside of the mutilations in 8i. Ugolino is eating Ruggieri’s brains.

40. 9th ring Judecca – Betrayers of Lords.
As the poets make their way to the middle bottom of Hell, Dante beholds Lucifer.
Lucifer is a huge beast frozen at his upper waist, his head is lolling off to the side and he has three faces. Each of them is crying, which is adding to the ice that he is frozen in. His eyes are glazed and Virgil tells Dante that he (Lucifer) is forever lost.
In his mouths are the three most evil betrayers in history
Brutus, Cassius and of course Judas

42. The Great Escape
Virgil tells Dante that time is running short and they must go.
They move up to Lucifer and at his side is a small hole in the ice. Virgil tells Dante to hang on to him and they start to climb down the leg of Satan which is goat-like.
A peculiar happening.
The last cave, mount Purgatory