Dante: The Divine Comedy — Inferno

DANTE: THE DIVINE COMEDY — INFERNO Dante Alighieri

Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Date: c. 1308–1321; translation 1867. Public domain. Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1001

The Divine Comedy

of Dante Alighieri

Translated by / HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW / INFERNO

Contents

Canto I. The Dark Forest. The Hill of Difficulty. The Panther, the Lion, and the Wolf. Virgil. / Canto II. The Descent. Dante’s Protest and Virgil’s Appeal. The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight. / Canto III. The Gate of Hell. The Inefficient or Indifferent. Pope Celestine V. The Shores of Acheron. Charon. The Earthquake and the Swoon. / Canto IV. The First Circle, Limbo: Virtuous Pagans and the Unbaptized. The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. The Noble Castle of Philosophy. / Canto V. The Second Circle: The Wanton. Minos. The Infernal Hurricane. Francesca da Rimini. / Canto VI. The Third Circle: The Gluttonous. Cerberus. The Eternal Rain. Ciacco. Florence. / Canto VII. The Fourth Circle: The Avaricious and the Prodigal. Plutus. Fortune and her Wheel. The Fifth Circle: The Irascible and the Sullen. Styx. / Canto VIII. Phlegyas. Philippo Argenti. The Gate of the City of Dis. / Canto IX. The Furies and Medusa. The Angel. The City of Dis. The Sixth Circle: Heresiarchs. / Canto X. Farinata and Cavalcante de’ Cavalcanti. Discourse on the Knowledge of the Damned. / Canto XI. The Broken Rocks. Pope Anastasius. General Description of the Inferno and its Divisions. / Canto XII. The Minotaur. The Seventh Circle: The Violent. The River Phlegethon. The Violent against their Neighbours. The Centaurs. Tyrants. / Canto XIII. The Wood of Thorns. The Harpies. The Violent against themselves. Suicides. Pier della Vigna. Lano and Jacopo da Sant’ Andrea. / Canto XIV. The Sand Waste and the Rain of Fire. The Violent against God. Capaneus. The Statue of Time, and the Four Infernal Rivers. / Canto XV. The Violent against Nature. Brunetto Latini. / Canto XVI. Guidoguerra, Aldobrandi, and Rusticucci. Cataract of the River of Blood. / Canto XVII. Geryon. The Violent against Art. Usurers. Descent into the Abyss of Malebolge. / Canto 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. / Canto XIX. The Third Bolgia: Simoniacs. Pope Nicholas…