Devil's Inferno (Siren Publishing Allure)

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Dante is approached by Guido da Montefeltro, head of the Ghibellines of Romagna, asking for news of his country. These are divided into three categories: (i) religious schism and discord, (ii) civil strife and political discord, and (iii) family disunion, or discord between kinsmen. Dante has great respect for Brunetto and feels spiritual indebtedness to him and his works ("you taught me how man makes himself eternal; / and while I live, my gratitude for that / must always be apparent in my words"); [75] Brunetto prophesies Dante's bad treatment by the Florentines.

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Bolgia 5 – Barrators: Corrupt politicians, who made money by trafficking in public offices (the political analogue of the simoniacs), are immersed in a lake of boiling pitch, which represents the sticky fingers and dark secrets of their corrupt deals. Virgil implies that the moon is now setting over the Pillars of Hercules in the West: the time is just after 6:00 AM, the dawn of Holy Saturday. Virgil forces Charon to take him by declaring, Vuolsi così colà dove si puote / ciò che si vuole ("It is so willed there where is power to do / That which is willed"), [20] referring to the fact that Dante is on his journey on divine grounds.These sinners endure lesser torments than do those consigned to Lower Hell, located within the walls of the City of Dis, for committing acts of violence and fraud – the latter of which involves, as Dorothy L. At the base of the well, Dante finds himself within a large frozen lake: Cocytus, the Ninth Circle of Hell.

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A "disease" on society, they are themselves afflicted with different types of afflictions: [100] horrible diseases, stench, thirst, filth, darkness, and screaming. After passing through the seven gates, the group comes to an exquisite green meadow and Dante encounters the inhabitants of the Citadel.

The Fourth Circle is guarded by a figure Dante names as Pluto: this is Plutus, the deity of wealth in classical mythology.

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He subsequently committed suicide; his presence here, rather than in the Ninth Circle, indicates that Dante believes that the accusations made against him were false. This passage exemplifies the danger of utilizing rhetoric without proper wisdom, a failing condemned by several of Dante's most prominent philosophical influences. Jason had previously seduced Hypsipyle when the Argonauts landed at Lemnos on their way to Colchis, but "abandoned her, alone and pregnant". A 1608 woodcut from Francesco Maria Guazzo's Compendium Maleficarum showing Satan as a flying goat, carrying a witch to the Sabbath.To Dante, these three men were the ultimate betrayers of humanity, as they caused the fall of Caesar and the fall of Christ.