The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

By Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Title:	The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Author:	Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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Language:	English
Subject:	Religion, Christian literature, Christian theology
Collections:	Religious Literature Collection, Christian Classics Ethereal Library
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Publisher:	Christian Classics Ethereal Library


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Excerpt
Excerpt: CREDITS; The base text for this edition has been provided by Digital Dante, a project sponsored by Columbia University's Institute for Learning Technologies. Specific thanks goes to Jennifer Hogan (Project Editor/Director), Tanya Larkin (Assistant to Editor), Robert W. Cole (Proofreader/Assistant Editor), and Jennifer Cook (Proofreader).

Table of Contents
Table of 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.