Circle 1: Limbo
• Unbaptized and virtuous pagans
• All virtuous non-Christians
• Guiltiness damned are punished by living in a deficient form of heaven
• Disappointment and regret
• Homer, Euclid, Socrates, Julius Caesar
Circle 2: Lust
• Those overcome by lust and sensual love
• Thrown by terrible winds of a violent storm w/o hope and rest. First ones truly punished
• Dido, Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Paris, Tristen
• Paolo and Francesca are murdered before they could repent carnal courtly love as sin
Circle 3: Gluttony
• Not only overindulgence in food and drink but also other kinds of addictions
• Gluttons lie here not being able to see their neighbors to represent selfish and empty sensuality of their lives
• Lay in vile freezing slush produced by ceaseless foul, icy rain
• Ciacco of Florence
Circle 4: Avarice and Prodigality
• Attitude toward material goods deviated from the appropriate mean
• Abused material goods
• Many clergymen, popes, and cardinals who hoarded possessions
• Joust using as weapons great weights which they push with their chests
• He finds the poets of antiquity who have been luminaries of his own intelligence.
• Latin Poets: Horace, Lucan
• Roll stones to crash against one another
Circle 5: Wrath and Sullenness
• Wrathful fight each other on the surface
• Sullen lie gurgling beneath the swamp-like water
• Filippo Argenti
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