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THE DIVINE COMEDY
OF DANTE ALIGHIERI
(1265-1321)
TRANSLATED BY
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

(1807-1882)
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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. Amphiaraus, Tiresias, Aruns,
Manto, Eryphylus, Michael Scott, Guido Bonatti, and Asdente. Virgil
reproaches Dante's Pity. Mantua's Foundation. XXI. The Fifth Bolgia:
Peculators. The Elder of Santa Zita.
Malacoda and other Devils.
XXII. Ciampolo, Friar Gomita, and
Michael Zanche.
The Malabranche quarrel.
XXIII. Escape from the Malabranche. The
Sixth Bolgia: Hypocrites.

Catalano and Loderingo. Caiaphas.
XXIV. The Seventh Bolgia:
Thieves. Vanni Fucci. Serpents. XXV. Vanni Fucci's Punishment.
Agnello Brunelleschi,
Buoso degli Abati, Puccio Sciancato, Cianfa de' Donati, and Guercio
Cavalcanti.
XXVI. The Eighth Bolgia: Evil Counsellors. Ulysses and
Diomed.
Ulysses' Last Voyage.
XXVII. Guido da Montefeltro. His deception
by Pope Boniface VIII. XXVIII. The Ninth Bolgia: Schismatics.
Mahomet and Ali.
Pier da Medicina, Curio, Mosca, and Bertrand de Born. XXIX. Geri del
Bello. The Tenth Bolgia: Alchemists.
Griffolino d' Arezzo and Capocchino.
XXX. Other Falsifiers or
Forgers. Gianni Schicchi, Myrrha,
Adam of Brescia, Potiphar's Wife, and Sinon of Troy. XXXI. The
Giants, Nimrod, Ephialtes, and Antaeus.
Descent to Cocytus.
XXXII. The Ninth Circle: Traitors. The Frozen
Lake of Cocytus.
First Division, Caina: Traitors to their Kindred.
Camicion de' Pazzi.
Second Division, Antenora:
Traitors to their Country. Dante
questions
Bocca degli Abati. Buoso da Duera.
XXXIII. Count
Ugolino and the Archbishop Ruggieri. The Death
of Count Ugolino's Sons. Third Division of the Ninth Circle, Ptolomaea:
Traitors to their Friends. Friar Alberigo, Branco d' Oria.
XXXIV.
Fourth Division of the Ninth Circle, the