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 Judecca:
Traitors
to their Lords and Benefactors. Lucifer,
Judas
Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius. The Chasm of Lethe.
The
Ascent.
