Both wish for the opposite, one hoping for recognition, and the other anonymity.

Unlike sinners in higher hell, Venedico shows a higher level of regret for his actions and his state in society that he attempts to avert even the gaze of Dante

Boglia

even actively want to speak to Dante and tell him of their plight, or ask him about the living.

n Alighieri’s imagery, corruption is never viewed as a whole or complete,

severed

There is somewhat of a connection between simony and usury since both sins are predicated on the exchange of money.

this becomes a permissible common practice to commercially exchange priesthood and the church

of

a rare thing happens

It is also worth mentioning that the way Dante describes the flatterers shows his ability (wit) to navigate easily between every style in his poetry.

antipathy

Dante plainly notes the similarity between the horned devils that control the sinners and the servants of Vatican.

the trumpet sound,

towards

on

talked

the marchese

This first bolgia also introduces the first soul that is unwillingly to be recognized and mentioned in the living world.

woman’s

Clergy Members are also baptizers and they’re supposed to bring life into this world like mothers however, their corruption means that they can only give birth to even more corrupted souls.

This misconception among Simonists that greed is a genetic contribution of womankind is further reiterated in how the manner in which Simonists are punished parallels child-birth imagery.

The men do not have nearly as much accountability to be pure and loyal as the women.

In a marriage, the woman is loyal to the husband by preserving her virginity.

to protect

dante

It is possible that Dante tells Cacciamenico’s story precisely because he does not want it to be told, which shows that Dante understands how the punishments in Hell are part of God’s plan.

The sinners in canto 7 are not able to be remembered because “the undiscerning life that befouled them makes them dark now to all recognition”

cowards

Dante is met

different change

Gods

who

suffered

He joyously hugs and kisses him in Canto 8 and happily carries him like a baby across the bridge in Canto 19

At

fornicate

called

Because the sinners in this canto wished to see far ahead, they can now only see behind them. Hence their punishment matches and completes their sin.

he fortune-tellers in this circle also guilty of fraud

Although

altered

but saying

pleased

artwork

how passionate and how serious God means to him

just how important God means

Dante chose this as a punishment humorously, as to say flatterers are “full of crap”.

both

animal

”

Vergil

of

This displays that one can commit sins and be punished but still be seen with great influence, like how both Dante’s view Brunetto.

was

the number 3 could be used by Dante, the writer

heard

same

In the third ring, a fiery rain falls on the sinners, which represents an unnatural phenomenon, like sodomy. Whereas regular rain replenishes the Earth, a fiery rain does the opposite since sodomizers also do not replenish Earth with new life

peoples

it

He

Some lay upon the ground, flat on their backs; some huddled in a crouch, and there they sat; and others moved about incessantly

ring

the

If their unchanging personas allow for a fabricated Hell, this, in turn, signifies that they’re evading and going against God’s punishments which He deems appropriate for the souls and are being punished by their own terms.

Capaneus’s perspective on his position in Hell entails the likelihood that all sinners are exactly as they were in the living world.

his situation was

states

Such as I was When living dead such now I am

In the notes of this canto it is said the Brunetto was burned in real life as punishment for the act of sodomy

an severe offensive sin

Additional Note:

responsible for their own hell

claims that

hell

was

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Koch, Joseph Anton (Austrian painter, engraver, and draftsman, 1768-1839), Ghirardoni, Giovanni Andrea (Italian painter, died ca. 1628). Iconografia dantesca. 1904. Artstor, library.artstor.org/asset/SS33624_33624_33391147

Vergil

Capaneus is an example of the saying “We are our own hell” (Barolini)

Cliffnotes

I researched more about Capaneus and found that he was a figure who thought himself so strong that not even Jove could destroy him, but instead he was destroyed by the thunderbolts of Jove

are

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was said to be

Hells

This idea is also supported in Barolini’s commentary with the quote by Capaneus stating, “As I was alive, so am I dead” (Inferno 14, 51). This line by Capaneus supports the notion that, “…we are our own hell” (Barolini). Capaneus’ special damnation supports this notion and helps Dante the pilgrim realize even more about the design of hell that God intended as he goes about his journey onto the right path.

did

hronological sequence of a fraudulent dea

People convince one another to commit fraud

Dinshaw, Carolyn. Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communites, Pre- and Postmodern. Duke University Press (1999). Print.

lso note that men are the main inhabitants if not the only inhabtants of this subcircle. The reasoning for this is because it is an attack on God’s perfect image of what is ‘natural.

premartial

coded

(from us, the readers)

focus

As we, the readers know that in Canto 15 Dante and Virgil are still in the seventh circle of Hell to which are inhabited by sinners who have committed violence against God

for example the heterosexual lovers – Francesca and Paulo who are placed in the second circle.

falls

worse

Dante admits that is own work referring to the Comedy, is a piece of literature in which he feels the need tell his story even though it seems fictional

Dante however doesn’t want this for himself

his skilled speech

which is their home on earth

as with Ciacco and Farinata

bove the gates of Hell

However, since Dante was Christian and wrote from his beliefs and not those of the Greeks, the head must still represent the earliest humans who were closest to God.  

including the Church

explains

for

doesn’t this also corrupts the ever-changing state of Nature?

within

it

modern society

to

By anticipating deeper to the Malebolge

to

as a little confused as to why Dante punishes sodomy as a worse punishment than the crimes committed by the lustful in Circle 2/Canto 5.

This is a recurring technique of Dante

mirror

human flaw may be linked to Satan deceiving

The mention of fraud being an evil that only mankind has is the reasoning for the greater punishment of those who commit fraud.

in

Pier

Pier is incredulous to his betrayal of God

folly

This shows a love of openness in Peter and not in Pier.

Within this seventh circle the sin is that of suicide, which Dante uses as a religious allegory by showing that although Pier may have been without sin, meaning, Pier might have been innocent of the treasonous crimes attributed to him at the time and therefore sinless, Pier committed suicide which is blasphemous to God and in and of itself condemns the suicided to hell through lack of ability to repent

The order is very central to what God believes to be important

“discipline follows the master”

to come back at Dante

I feel

Harming God

it

you

Frederick the Third

voice

They

was one of the biggest sins

you

I feel that Dante can now shed any doubts he has accumulative from Dante’s previous failed actions

but with this new confident assertive Virgil

This whole Canto, in my opinion has a hidden theme, which is reclamation.

Also, fraud can hurt more than one person at a time. Somebody in power, like a president, could commit fraud and it would affect millions of people. Propaganda is a form of fraud and it causes discrimination and hatred. The Holocaust is an example of fraud that lead to mass killings.

He hates fraud more than violence because fraud can only hurt humans, whereas violence hurts all creatures

This terzina shows Dante the poet’s opinion that fraudulent people are worse than people who physically hurt, or even kill others.

Heave

soul is represented by his son

However, heretics attributed their souls to materialistic possessions in the world

Dante says that “my reply was so full” because even though it was misinterpreted, it was more information that what Cavalcanti originally possessed

is

Their tombs are next to each other

he metaphorically became a citizen of Florence.

providence

rule

Both verses are well measured to show that both Farinata and Dante are equally loyal to their parties.

he was doing justice by his people

and not vice versa

ruler

religious authority

Pope Frederick II

hese souls are already lying down in their graves

in materialistic moderation

Virgile

Another soul interrupts the conversation that barely begun between Farinata and Dante which is later on known to be the father of Guido(Dante’s friend). The father asks Dante why his son did not accompany him, so I can imply that Guido is already dead.

it leads me to assume

hy does he call Farinata his “leader”

comes

were

He illustrates the idea that in pervading the minds of others, heretics pervade the soul, a result of their actions against God’s will.

a

being

they are being

translator

Although he is no longer living, this reaction shows that his eternal torment is a lesser cause of worry as opposed to the wrongdoings he feels the Guelfs have done him.

f a great tomb, on which I made out this,inscribed: ‘I hold Pope Anastasius enticed to leave the true path by Photinus.’” (Digital Dante, note to lines 7-9, canto 11

Fraud breaks the promise of love because fraud destroys faith/ trust. Therefore, Pope Anastasius receives the worst punishmen

bullet

Cerberus proceeds to devours his foods with raving hunger and remains to silence while he is fulfilling his appetite.

In

describes

artwork

that have made him human

cross

them

with pride being one of them

usually a “head held high” and a protruding chest are all physical characteristics of pride.

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interpreted

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represented

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