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The Fifth Circle, that

of the Wrathful.

CANTo VIII: The Fifth Circle. Phlegyas and his boat. Passage of the Styx. Filippo Argenti. The City of Dis. The demons refuse entrance to the poets.

CANTO IX: The City of Dis. Erichtho. The Three Furies. The Heavenly Messenger.

The Sixth Circle: that of the Heretics.

CANTo X: The Sixth Circle. Farinata degli Uberti. Cavalcante Cavalcanti. Frederick II.

CANTO XI: The Sixth Circle. Tomb of Pope Anastasius. Discourse of Virgil on the divisions of the lower Hell.

CANTo XII: The Seventh Circle, that of the Violent, first round: those who do violence to others. The Minotaur. The Centaurs. Chiron. Nessus. The River of boiling blood, and the sinners in it.

CANTo XIII: The Seventh Circle, second round: those who have done violence to themselves and to their goods. The Wood of Self-murderers. The Harpies. Pier dello Vigne. Lano of Siena and others.

CANTO XIV: The Seventh Circle, third round: those who have done violence to God. The Burning Sand. Capaneus. Figure of the Old Man in Crete. The rivers of Hell.

CANTo XV: The Seventh Circle, third round: those who have done violence to Nature. Brunetto Latini. Prophecies of misfortune to Dante.

CANTo XVI: The Seventh Circle, third round: those who have done violence to Nature. Guido Guerra, Tegghiaio Aldobrandi and Jacopo Rusticucci. The roar of Phlegethon as it pours downward.

The cord thrown into the abyss.

CANTo XVII. The Seventh Circle, third round: those who have done violence to Art. Geryon. The Usurers. Descent to the Eighth Circle.

CANTo XVIII: The Eighth Circle: that of the fraudulent; first pouch: pandars and seducers. Venedico Caccianimico. Jason. Second pouch: false flatterers. Alessio Interminei. Thais.

CANTo XIX: The Eighth Circle: third pouch: simonists. Pope Nicholas III.

CANTO XX: The Eighth Circle: fourth pouch: diviners, soothsayers, and magicians. Amphiaraus. Tiresias. Aruns. Manto. Eurypylus. Michael Scott. Asdente.

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CANTO XXI: The Eighth Circle: fifth pouch: barrators. A magistrate of Lucca. The Malebranche. Parley with them.

CANTo XXII: The Eighth Circle: fifth pouch: barrators.

Ciampolo of Navarre. Fra Gomita. Michel Zanche. Fray of the Malebranche.

CANTo XXIII: The Eighth Circle. Escape from the fifth pouch.

The sixth pouch: hypocrites, in cloaks of gilded lead. Jovial Friars.

Caiaphas. Annas. Frate Catalano.

CANTO XXIV: The Eighth Circle. The poets climb from the sixth pouch. Seventh pouch, filled with serpents, by which thieves are tormented. Vanni Fucci. Prophecy of calamity to Dante.

CANTO XXV: The Eighth Circle: seventh pouch: fraudulent thieves. Cacus. Agnello Brunelleschi and others.

CANTO XXVI: The Eighth Circle: eighth pouch: fraudulent counsellors. Ulysses and Diomed.

CANTO XXVII: The Eighth Circle: eighth pouch: fraudulent counsellors. Guido da Montefeltro.

CANTO XXVIII : The Eighth Circle: ninth pouch: sowers of discord and schism. Mahomet and Ali. Fra Dolcino. Pier da Medicina. Curio. Mosca. Bertran de Born.

CANTO XXIX: The Eighth Circle: ninth pouch. Geri del Bello.

Tenth pouch: falsifiers of all sorts. Alchemists. Griffolino of Arezzo.

Capocchio.

CANTo XXX: The Eighth Circle: tenth pouch: false personators, false moneyers, and the false in words. Myrrha. Gianni Schicchi. Master Adam. Sinon of Troy.

CANTo XXXI: The Eighth Circle. Giants. Nimrod. Ephialtes.

Anta:ms sets the Poets down in the Ninth Circle.

CANTo XXXII: The Ninth Circle: that of traitors; first ring: Caina. Counts of Mangona. Camicion de' Pazzi. Second ring: Antenora. Bocca degli Abati. Buoso da Duera. Count Ugolino.

CANTo XXXIII: The Ninth Circle: second ring: Antenora.

Count Ugolino. Third ring: Ptolomea. Frate Alberigo. Branca d' Oria.

CANTo XXXIV: The Ninth Circle: fourth ring: Judecca. Lucifer. Judas, Brutus and Cassius. Centre of the Universe. Passage from Hell. Ascent to the surface of the Southern Hemisphere.

PuRGATOR'Y

CANTo 1: The new theme. Invocation to the Muses. Dawn of Appendix B 385

Easter on the shore of Purgatory. The Four Stars. Cato. The cleansing of Dante's face