DANTE'S INFERNO

DANTE'S INFERNO

• Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem,
• Divine comedy
• Allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell

THE NINE LEVELS

• Limbo, lust, gluttony
• Greed, anger, heresy,
• Violence,Fraud, treachery

LIMBO

• resided by virtuous non-Christians and unbaptized pagans
• They live in a castle with seven gates which symbolize the seven virtues.

LUST

• Dante and his companion Virgil find people who were overcome by lust
• punished by being blown violently back and forth by strong winds
• Winds prevent them from finding peace and rest

GLUTTONY

• Souls of gluttons
• Overlooked by worm monster Cerberus
• punished by being forced to lie in a vile slush
• Produced by never ending icy rain

GREED

• Divided into two groups:
• those who hoarded possessions and those who lavishly spent it
• Continually jousting

ANGER

• Wrathful and sullen are punished for their sins
• Wrathful fighting each other on the surface of the river Styx
• sullen gurgling beneath the surface of the water

HERESY

• Heretics who are condemned to eternity in flaming tombs

VIOLENCE

• The Seventh Circle of Hell is divided into three rings
• Murderers, suicides, blasphemers, and sodomites

FRAUD

• resided by the fraudulent
• Geryon, a flying monster with different natures, just like the fraudulent
• Politicians, hypocrites, and theives

TREACHERY

• divided into 4 Rounds according to the seriousness of the sin
• all residents are frozen in an icy lake
• severe sins are deeper within the ice

REFERENCES

• The Monk's Tale from the Canterbury Tales
• -- describes the flight of Count Ugolino
• The 1946 cartoon Book Revue, starring Daffy Duck
• -- Travel through the book Dante's Inferno