The Inferno of Dante Alighieri

A Rhymed Translation by Seth Zimmerman

Illustrations by Janet Van Fleet

Copyright © 2003 Seth Zimmerman and Janet Van Fleet. All rights reserved.

Cantos: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34

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canto summaries

essay on triple-rhyme

chronology

the translator

the illustrator

list of illustrations

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I Dante lost in a dark wood; the leopard, the lion and the she-wolf;

Virgil offers to guide him.

II Virgil explains why he's come; Dante takes courage.

III The Gate of Hell; the vestibule; the indecisive; Charon

IV Limbo, the first circle; the unbaptized; the poets

V The second circle; Minos; the carnal sinners; Paolo and Francesca

VI The third circle; the gluttons; Cerberus; Ciacco

VII Plutus; the fourth circle; the prodigal and avaricious; Fortune; the fifth circle;

the wrathful and sullen

VIII The fifth circle; Phlegyas; the rebellious angels; the city of Dis

IX The three furies; Medusa; the angel; the sixth circle; the heretics

X The heretics; Farinata; Cavalcante

XI The sixth circle; the tomb of the heretical pope, Anastasius; the plan of Hell

XII The seventh circle; the Minotaur; the violent; the centaurs; Chiron; the tyrants;

the murderers

XIII The second round of the seventh circle; the wood of the violent against themselves;

the harpies; Pier delle Vigne; Lano; Jacome da Sant Andrea; Florence

XIV The third round of the seventh circle; the burning sand; the violent against

God, Nature, Art; Capaneus; the Old Man of Crete; the rivers of Hell

XV The third round of the seventh circle; the sodomites; Brunetto Latini

XVI The third round of the seventh circle; three Florentines; the cord

XVII Geryon; the usurers; descent to the eighth circle

XVIII The eighth circle, Malebolge, first bolgia; the pimps and seducers; Jason;

the second bolgia; the flatterers; Alessio Interminei; Thaïs

XIX The eighth circle, third bolgia; the simonists; Nicholas III;

the poet's invective against simoniacal popes

XX The eighth circle, fourth bolgia; the diviners; Amphiaraus, Tiresias,

Manto, Eurypylus

XXI The eighth circle, fifth bolgia; the grafters; the boiling pitch;

Malacoda; the escort

XXII The eighth circle, fifth bolgia; the grafters, Barbariccia,

the Navarrese, Alichino, Calcabrina

XXIII The eighth circle, fifth bolgia; slide to the sixth bolgia;

the hypocrites; the jovial friars; Caiaphas; Virgil's distress

XXIV The eighth circle, sixth bolgia; climb to the seventh bolgia;

the thieves; Vanni Fucci; the prediction

XXV Vanni Fucci's obscene gesture to God; Cacus; the three shades;

Cianfa and Agnello merging; Buoso; Puccio Sciancato

XXVI The eighth circle; prophecy against Florence; view of the eighth bolgia;

the deceivers in flames; Ulysses

XXVII The eighth circle, eighth bolgia; the fraudulent counselors;

Guido da Montefeltro

XXVIII The eighth circle, ninth bolgia; the sowers of scandal and schism;

Mohammed; Curio; Mosca; Bertran de Born

XXIX The eighth circle, ninth bolgia; Geri del Bello; the tenth bolgia;

the falsfiers; Griffolino; Capocchio

XXX The eighth circle, tenth bolgia; the falsifiers; Gianni Schicchi;

Myrrha; Master Adam; Potiphar's wife; Sinon; Virgil's reproof

XXXI The bank to the ninth circle; the giants Nimrod, Ephialtes,

Briareus; Antaeus lowers them to the central, frozen pit.

XXXII The ninth circle, first ring, Caïna; the traitors to kin in the ice;

Camiscion de' Pazzi; the second ring, Antenora; the traitors to homeland or party;

Bocca; one sinner gnawing another

XXXIII The ninth circle, second ring; Ugolino's story; the third ring, Ptolomea;

Fra Alberigo and Branca d'Oria

XXXIV The ninth circle, fourth ring, Judecca; Dis or Lucifer; Judas, Brutus,Cassius;

the southern hemisphere; the stars

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List of illustrations

Photographs by Terry Allen and Janet Van Fleet

III,82 - Charon

IV,25 - Limbo

V,4 - Minos

V,73 - Paolo and Francesca

VI,13 - Cerberus

VI,37 - One of the gluttons

VII,25 - Plutus, Prodigal and Avaricious

VII,112 - Wrathful and Sullen

VIII,82 - Rebellious Angels

X,34 - Farinata

XII,22 - Minotaur

XII,73 - Centaurs, the Violent

XIV,22 - Violent against God

XV,124 - Brunetto Latini

XVII,10 - Geryon

XVIII,34 - Pimps and Seducers

XVIII,112 - Flatterers

XIX,43 - Simonists

XXI,43 - Grafters

XXIII,61 - Hypocrites

XXV,49 - Agnello

XXVI,49 - Deceivers in flames

XXVIII,121 - Bertran de Born

XXIX,82 - Falsifiers

XXX,49 - Master Adam

XXX,148 - Circle eight, bolgias 6–10

XXXII,40 - Traitors

XXXII,124 - Ugolino and Ruggieri

XXXIV,31 - Satan

XXXIV,40 - Satan

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