The time was the beginning of the morning,Īnd up the sun was mounting with those stars Which with a spotted skin was covered o’er! So that the firm foot ever was the lower. So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward, The night, which I had passed so piteously.Īnd even as he, who, with distressful breath,įorth issued from the sea upon the shore, That in my heart’s lake had endured throughout Which leadeth others right by every road. Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders, Which had with consternation pierced my heart, I cannot well repeat how there I entered,īut after I had reached a mountain’s foot,Īt that point where the valley terminated, Speak will I of the other things I saw there. Which in the very thought renews the fear.īut of the good to treat, which there I found, What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, The Ascent.įor the straightforward pathway had been lost. Lucifer, Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius. Fourth Division of the Ninth Circle, the Judecca: Traitors to their Lords and Benefactors. Friar Alberigo, Branco d’ Oria.Ĭanto XXXIV. Third Division of the Ninth Circle, Ptolomaea: Traitors to their Friends. Count Ugolino and the Archbishop Ruggieri. Second Division, Antenora: Traitors to their Country. First Division, Caina: Traitors to their Kindred. The Giants, Nimrod, Ephialtes, and Antaeus. Gianni Schicchi, Myrrha, Adam of Brescia, Potiphar’s Wife, and Sinon of Troy.Ĭanto XXXI. Griffolino d’ Arezzo and Capocchino.Ĭanto XXX. Pier da Medicina, Curio, Mosca, and Bertrand de Born.Ĭanto XXIX. His deception by Pope Boniface VIII.Ĭanto XXVIII. Agnello Brunelleschi, Buoso degli Abati, Puccio Sciancato, Cianfa de’ Donati, and Guercio Cavalcanti.Ĭanto XXVI. Ciampolo, Friar Gomita, and Michael Zanche. Amphiaraus, Tiresias, Aruns, Manto, Eryphylus, Michael Scott, Guido Bonatti, and Asdente. Dante’s Reproof of corrupt Prelates.Ĭanto XX. The Eighth Circle, Malebolge: The Fraudulent and the Malicious.

Descent into the Abyss of Malebolge.Ĭanto XVIII. Cataract of the River of Blood.Ĭanto XVII. The Statue of Time, and the Four Infernal Rivers.Ĭanto XV. Lano and Jacopo da Sant’ Andrea.Ĭanto XIV. General Description of the Inferno and its Divisions.Ĭanto XII. Discourse on the Knowledge of the Damned.Ĭanto XI. The Fifth Circle: The Irascible and the Sullen. The Fourth Circle: The Avaricious and the Prodigal. The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. The First Circle, Limbo: Virtuous Pagans and the Unbaptized. The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight.Ĭanto III. *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DIVINE COMEDY *** The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Translated byĬontents Canto I.

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