Dante’s Inferno

The Dark Wood of Error

The encounter with the three beasts

The Lion (Fraud)

The Leopard (Violence)

The She-Wolf (Incontinence)

Dante and Virgil at the Gate of Hell

Charon ferrying across the River Acheron

Circle I

Limbo

Minos

The Lustful

Circle II

Francesca and Paolo

The Gluttonous

Circle III

The Avaricious

Circle IV

The Wrathful

Circle V

The Heretics

Circle VI

Violence Against Neighbors

Violence Against Self

Violence Against God and Art

Fraud

Circle VIII Panderers and Seducers Flatterers

Simoniacs (those who bought or sold ecclesiastical pardons or offices) Sorcerers , astrologers , and false prophets

Grafters (Corrupt politicians) Hypocrites

Thieves Evil Counselors

Sowers of Discord Falsifiers

Cocytus

The Ninth Circle: Traitors

Caina: Traitors to Kindred

Antenora: Traitors to Country

Ptolemia: Traitors to Guests and Hosts

Judecca: Traitors to Masters

Satan O, what a marvel it appeared to me, When I beheld three faces on his head!

The one in front, and that vermilion was; Two were the others, that were joined with this Above the middle part of either shoulder, And they were joined together at the crest; And the right-hand one seemed 'twixt white and yellow; The left was such to look upon as those Who come from where the Nile falls valley-ward.

Underneath each came forth two mighty wings, Such as befitting were so great a bird; Sails of the sea I never saw so large.

No feathers had they, but as of a bat Their fashion was; and he was waving them, So that three winds proceeded forth therefrom.

Thereby Cocytus wholly was congealed.

With six eyes did he weep, and down three chins Trickled the tear-drops and the bloody drivel.

At every mouth he with his teeth was crunching A sinner, in the manner of a brake, So that he three of them tormented thus.

“By that hidden way My guide and I did enter, to return To the fair world...

Till on our view the beautiful lights of Heaven Dawn'd through a circular opening in the cave: Thence issuing we again beheld the stars.”