CONTENTS
Inferno
I. The Dark Forest. The Hill of Difficulty. The Panther, the Lion, and
the Wolf. Virgil. II. The Descent. Dante\'s Protest and Virgil\'s Appeal. The
Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight. III. The Gate of Hell. The
Inefficient or Indifferent. Pope Celestine V. The Shores of Acheron.
Charon. The Earthquake and the Swoon. IV. The First Circle, Limbo:
Virtuous Pagans and the Unbaptized. The Four Poets, Homer, Horace,
Ovid, and Lucan. The Noble Castle of Philosophy. V. The Second Circle:
The Wanton. Minos. The Infernal Hurricane. Francesca da Rimini. VI. The
Third Circle: The Gluttonous. Cerberus. The Eternal Rain. Ciacco.
Florence. VII. The Fourth Circle: The Avaricious and the Prodigal. Plutus.
Fortune and her Wheel. The Fifth Circle: The Irascible and the Sullen.
Styx. VIII. Phlegyas. Philippo Argenti. The Gate of the City of Dis. IX.
The Furies and Medusa. The Angel. The City of Dis. The Sixth Circle:
Heresiarchs. X. Farinata and Cavalcante de\' Cavalcanti. Discourse on the
Knowledge of the Damned. XI. The Broken Rocks. Pope Anastasius.
General Description of the Inferno and its Divisions. XII. The Minotaur.
The Seventh Circle: The Violent. The River Phlegethon. The Violent
against their Neighbours. The Centaurs. Tyrants. XIII. The Wood of
Thorns. The Harpies. The Violent against themselves. Suicides. Pier della
Vigna. Lano and Jacopo da Sant\' Andrea. XIV. The Sand Waste and the
Rain of Fire. The Violent against God. Capaneus. The Statue of Time, and
the Four Infernal Rivers. XV. The Violent against Nature. Brunetto Latini.
XVI. Guidoguerra, Aldobrandi, and Rusticucci. Cataract of the River of
Blood. XVII. Geryon. The Violent against Art. Usurers. Descent into the
Abyss of Malebolge. XVIII. The Eighth Circle, Malebolge: The
Fraudulent and the Malicious. The First Bolgia: Seducers and Panders.
Venedico Caccianimico. Jason. The Second Bolgia: Flatterers. Allessio
Interminelli. Thais. XIX. The Third Bolgia: Simoniacs. Pope Nicholas III.
Dante\'s Reproof of corrupt Prelates. XX. The Fourth Bolgia: Soothsayers.