Cantos IX-XIII
Agastya, Matthew, Roberto, Creigh
Canto IX
Medusa
A guardian at the City of Dis, capable of turning any man to stone who looks upon her.
Messenger from God
He allows passage into the City of Dis by warding off the evil spirits and opening the doors with a flick of his wand.
Lower Hell
The passage through Dis is the crossover from Upper Hell (where are punished the victims to their own desires) and Lower Hell (where are punished the committers of malicious intent).
Canto X
Farinata degli Uberti
He is a Florentine, just like Dante
A city divided
Farinata elaborates on the wars.
Forseeing the Future
Dante's political career will change soon
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Canto XI
Last 3 Circles of Hell
The Seventh Circle of Hell, which contains those who are violent, is subdivided into three smaller circles: they punish the sins of violence against one’s neighbor, against oneself, and against God. Worse than any violence, however, is the sin of fraud, which breaks the trust of a man and therefore most directly opposes the great virtue of love. The last two circles of Hell thus punish the Fraudulent. The Eighth Circle punishes “normal fraud”—sins that violate the natural trust between people. Such fraud includes acts of hypocrisy and underhanded flattery. The Ninth Circle, the seat of Dis, punishes betrayal—sins that violate a relationship of particularly special trust. These are the loyalties to kin, to country and party, to guests, and to benefactors.
Nicomachean Ethics
Created by Aristotle, suggested the existence of three main dispositions to counter heaven's will: incontinence, malice, and insane brutality.
Usury (7th Circle)
Virgil explains to Dante that usury goes against God’s will because a usurer makes his money not from industry or skill (“art”)—as Genesis stipulates that human beings should—but rather from money itself (in the form of interest). Thus, usurers also go against God’s “art,” or His design for the world.
Canto XII
Centaur
These mythical creatures patrol the banks of the Phelgethon River and shoot those who attempt to climb out beyond their allowance.
Phlegethon
In the Circle of Violence against neighbors, those guilty of committing physical harm to others are forever left steeped in a boiling river of blood.
Minotaur
Guards passage into the Seventh Circle.