CANTO VII.
The Fourth Circle. — Plutus. — The Avaricious and the Prodigal. — Fortune

and her Wheel. — The Fifth Circle. — Styx. — The Irascible and the
Sullen . . . . . . . . .

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CANTO VIII.
Phlegyas. — Philippo Argenti. — The Gate of the City of Dis .

CANTO IX.

The Furies. — The Angel. – The City of Dis. — The Sixth Circle. – Here-

siarchs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

CANTO XI.
Pope Anastasius. — General Description of the Inferno and its Divisions , 63

CANTO XII.
The Minotaur. — The Seventh Circle. — The Violent. — Phlegethon. — The

Violent against their Neighbors. — The Centaurs. — Tyrants.

CANTO XXVIII. The Ninth Bolgia : Schismatics. – Mahomet and Ali. — Pier da Medicina,

Curio, Mosca, and Bertrand de Born . . . . . . . . 171

CANTO XXIX.
The Tenth Bolgia : Alchemists. — Griffolino d'Arezzo and Capocchio .

. 178

CANTO XXX. Other Falsifiers or Forgers. — Gianni Schicchi, Myrrha, Adam of Brescia, Pot

iphar's Wife, and Sinon of Troy . . . . . . .

184

CANTO XXXII. The Ninth Circle : the Frozen Lake of Cocytus. — First Division, Caïna :

Traitors to their Kindred. - Camicion de' Pazzi. – Second Division, Antenora: Traitors to their Country. – Bocca degli Abati and Buoso da Duera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

CANTO XXXIII.
Count Ugolino and the Archbishop Ruggieri. – Third Division of the Ninth

Circle, Ptolomæa : Traitors to their friends. — Friar Alberigo, Branco
d'Oria
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CANTO XXXIV. Fourth Division of the Ninth Circle, the Judecca : Traitors to their Lords and

Benefactors. — Lucifer, Judas Iscariot, Brutus and Cassius . . . 211

ILLUSTRATIONS.

L'Ottimo Comento . . . . .
Villani's Notice of Dante . . .
Letter of Frate Ilario . . . . .
Passage from the Convito . . .
Dante's Letter to a Friend . . . .
Portraits of Dante . . . . .
Boccaccio's Account of the Commedia .
The Posthumous Dante . . . .
The Scholastic Philosophy . . . .
Homer's Odyssey, Book XI. . . .
Virgil's Æneid, Book VI. , ..
Cicero's Vision of Scipio . . .
Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven . ..
The Vision of Frate Alberico . . .
The Vision of Walkelin . . . .
From the Life of St. Brandan . . .
Icelandic Vision . . . . . .
Anglo-Saxon Description of Paradise .

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