| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Canto 1 | Dante meets Virgil in the dark wood after seeing the 3 beasts |
| Canto 2 | Dante wonders why me and virgil explains that Beatrice has sent him on this journey |
| Canto 3 | Gates of hell |
| who is in Canto 3 | Charon takes Dante by boat over the river Acheron |
| Canto 4 | 1st, limbo |
| who is in the 1st circle of Hell | people who were before christ and unbaptised. they are lost and live with desire |
| who is met in canto 4 | hears storry of the harrowing of Hell when christ saved abel. There are classical people |
| Canto 5 | 2nd circle, the lustful |
| what is the punishment in the 2nd circle | There is an infernal whirlwind that tortures them-power of passion |
| who is in canto 5 | Minos who judges all who enter Hell, Francesca (paolo) |
| Canto 6 | 3rd circle, gluttony |
| what is punishment in 3rd circle | It rains, hails, and snows in the cold landscape-versions of the food and drink they had in excess |
| who is in Canto 6 | cerberus-great worm, Ciacco-reveals prophecy, freeloader |
| Canto 7 | 4th circle, spent or saved too much |
| what is the punishment for the 4th circle | roll huge balls in a circle and run into each other, metaphor for crashing waves, they lack measure |
| who is in canto 7 | plutus-God of riches, Virgil talks of fortune, river Styx |
| Canto 8 | 5th circle, people driven by wrath and anger |
| punishment in 5th circle | lay in black slime similar to their gloom in life |
| who is in canto 8 | phlegylus takes them across river styx, Filippo argenti known for beign angry, walls of Dis |
| Canto 9 | 6th circle, heretics |
| punishment in 6th circle | they lay in open tombs |
| people in canto 9 | the furies are in a tower of Dis, medusa is a threat, heavenly messenger who grants access to Dis |
| Canto 10 | 6th circle continued |
| people in canto 10 | epicureans-don't beleive in afterlife, Farinata(ghiboline), Cavalcante, second frederick and the cardinal |
| Canto 11 | delay while they get used to the stench Virgil explains set up of lower hell |
| people in Canto 11 | God's grandchild-our art when we imitate nature |
| divissions of lower hell | violence, fraud, treachery |
| Canto 12 | 7th circle, sub 1-the violent against others |
| punishment in canto 12 | lay in a river of blood 'blood on my hands', centaurs shoot them if they come too far out |
| people in canto 12 | explains earthquake when jesus died that led to landscape, centaurs, atilla the hun and alexander |
| Canto 13 | 7th circle sub 2-violent against self-suicides |
| punishment in canto 13 | they are plants and when a branch breaks it hurts them |
| people in canto 13 | Pier della Vigna-dante breaks his branch, held influence over king frederick and suicided to avoid shame, harpies feed on plants |
| Canto 14 | 7th circle sub3-violent against God, nature, industry |
| punishment in canto 14 | It is a burning plain |
| people in canto 14 | Capaneus-one of 7 kings who plundered thebes, story of man whose tears create rivers of hell |
| Canto 15 | 8th circle, sodomites |
| punishment in 8th circle | must walk in groups endlessly, it rains fire, walk on hot sand |
| people in canto 15 | Brunetto-gives prophecy that dante will be persecuted, he was a mentor and father figure to Dante |
| Lisabetta (Decameron) | had a lover and her brothers killed him, she found his head and kept it, they took it, she was very sad |
| Messer Guglielmo Rossiglione (decameron) | 2 knights were best friends, wife of one fell in lover with other knight. He husband killed friend and fed her his heart |
| Biondello (decameron) | she story of Ciacco, a gluttonous man who freeloaded |
| the ninth story (decameron) | Guido cavalcanti is cornered at a temple but he nimbly gets away and calls them ignorant |
| The 8th story (Decameron) | a woman's husband is put in fake purgatory so the priest can take advantage of the wife. When the husband is brought back he is a great husband and a new man |
| Federigo degli alberghi (decameron) | he spends all his money chacing a woman, once he has nothing but his prize falcon she comes to his home and he kills it for food, they ned up marrying |
| the fifth story (decameron) | man is conned out of all his money by a woman when he goes to trade for horses in Naples |
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