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Dante's Inquiry on Prayers for the Dead. Sordello. Italy. VII. The Valley of Flowers. Negligent Princes.?VIII. The Guardian Angels and the Serpent. Nino di Gallura.
The Three Stars. Currado Malaspina.?IX. Dante's Dream of the Eagle. The Gate of Purgatory and
the Angel. Seven P's. The Keys.?X. The Needle's Eye. The First Circle: The Proud.
The Sculptures on the Wall.?XI. The Humble Prayer. Omberto di Santafiore.
Oderisi d' Agobbio. Provenzan Salvani.?XII. The Sculptures on the Pavement. Ascent to the Second Circle. XIII. The Second Circle: The Envious. Sapia of Siena.?XIV. Guido del Duca and Renier da Calboli. Cities of
the Arno Valley. Denunciation of Stubbornness.?XV. The Third Circle: The Irascible. Dante's Visions. The Smoke. XVI. Marco Lombardo. Lament over the State of the World. XVII. Dante's Dream of Anger. The Fourth Circle: The Slothful.
Virgil's Discourse of Love.?XVIII. Virgil further discourses of Love and Free Will.
The Abbot of San Zeno.?XIX. Dante's Dream of the Siren. The Fifth Circle:
The Avaricious and Prodigal. Pope Adrian V.?XX. Hugh Capet. Corruption of the French Crown.
Prophecy of the Abduction of Pope Boniface VIII and the Sacrilege of Philip the Fair. The Earthquake.?XXI. The Poet Statius. Praise of Virgil.?XXII. Statius' Denunciation of Avarice. The Sixth Circle:
The Gluttonous. The Mystic Tree.?XXIII. Forese. Reproof of immodest Florentine Women.?XXIV. Buonagiunta da Lucca. Pope Martin IV, and others.
Inquiry into the State of Poetry.?XXV. Discourse of Statius on Generation. The Seventh Circle:
The Wanton.?XXVI. Sodomites. Guido Guinicelli and Arnaldo Daniello.?XXVII. The Wall of Fire and the Angel of God. Dante's Sleep
upon the Stairway, and his Dream of Leah and Rachel. Arrival at the Terrestrial Paradise.?XXVIII. The River Lethe. Matilda. The Nature of
the Terrestrial Paradise.?XXIX. The Triumph of the Church.?XXX. Virgil's Departure. Beatrice. Dante's Shame.?XXXI. Reproaches of Beatrice and Confession of Dante.
The Passage of Lethe. The Seven Virtues. The Griffon. XXXII. The Tree of Knowledge. Allegory of the Chariot.?XXXIII. Lament over the State of the Church. Final Reproaches
of Beatrice. The River Eunoe.
Paradiso
I. The Ascent to the First Heaven. The Sphere of Fire. II. The First Heaven, the Moon: Spirits who, having taken
Sacred Vows, were forced to violate them. The Lunar Spots. III. Piccarda Donati and the Empress Constance.?IV. Questionings of the Soul and of Broken Vows.?V. Discourse of Beatrice on Vows and Compensations.
Ascent to the Second Heaven, Mercury: Spirits who for the Love of Fame achieved great Deeds.?VI. Justinian. The Roman Eagle. The Empire. Romeo.?VII. Beatrice's Discourse of the Crucifixion, the Incarnation,
the Immortality of the Soul, and the Resurrection of the Body. VIII. Ascent to the Third Heaven, Venus: Lovers. Charles Martel.
Discourse on diverse Natures.?IX. Cunizza da Romano, Folco of Marseilles, and Rahab.
Neglect of the Holy Land.?X. The Fourth Heaven, the Sun: Theologians and Fathers of
the Church. The First Circle. St. Thomas of Aquinas. XI. St. Thomas recounts the Life of St. Francis. Lament over
the State of the Dominican Order.?XII. St. Buonaventura recounts the Life of St. Dominic. Lament
over the State of the Franciscan Order. The Second Circle. XIII. Of the Wisdom of Solomon. St. Thomas reproaches
Dante's Judgement.?XIV. The Third Circle. Discourse on the Resurrection of the Flesh.
The Fifth Heaven, Mars: Martyrs and Crusaders who died fighting for the true Faith. The Celestial Cross.?XV. Cacciaguida. Florence in the Olden Time.?XVI. Dante's Noble Ancestry. Cacciaguida's Discourse of
the Great Florentines.?XVII. Cacciaguida's Prophecy of Dante's Banishment.?XVIII. The Sixth Heaven, Jupiter: Righteous Kings and Rulers.
The Celestial Eagle. Dante's Invectives against?ecclesiastical Avarice.?XIX. The Eagle discourses of Salvation, Faith, and Virtue.
Condemnation of the vile Kings of A.D. 1300.?XX. The Eagle praises the Righteous Kings of old.
Benevolence of the Divine Will.?XXI. The Seventh Heaven, Saturn: The Contemplative.
The Celestial Stairway. St. Peter Damiano. His Invectives against the Luxury of the Prelates.?XXII. St. Benedict. His Lamentation over the Corruption of Monks.
The Eighth Heaven, the Fixed Stars.?XXIII. The Triumph of Christ. The Virgin Mary. The Apostles.
Gabriel.?XXIV. The Radiant Wheel. St. Peter examines Dante on Faith. XXV. The Laurel Crown. St. James examines Dante on Hope.
Dante's Blindness.?XXVI. St. John examines Dante on Charity. Dante's Sight. Adam. XXVII. St. Peter's reproof of bad Popes. The Ascent to
the Ninth Heaven, the 'Primum Mobile.'?XXVIII. God and the Angelic Hierarchies.?XXIX. Beatrice's Discourse of the Creation of the Angels,
and of the Fall of Lucifer. Her Reproof of Foolish and Avaricious Preachers.?XXX. The Tenth Heaven, or Empyrean. The River of Light.
The Two Courts of Heaven. The White Rose of Paradise. The great Throne.?XXXI. The Glory of Paradise. Departure of Beatrice. St. Bernard. XXXII. St. Bernard points out the Saints in the White Rose. XXXIII. Prayer to the Virgin. The Threefold Circle of the Trinity.
Mystery of the Divine and Human Nature.
Incipit Comoedia Dantis Alagherii,?Florentini natione, non moribus.
The Divine Comedy?translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?(e-text courtesy ILT's Digital Dante Project)
INFERNO
Inferno: Canto I
Midway upon the journey of our life?I found myself within a forest dark,?For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say?What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,?Which in the very thought