The Divine Comedy

• Inferno begins on Good Friday
• Dante is 35 years old at the beginning of the poem
• Virgil represents reason
• Sullen is the group of sinners submerged in Styx
• Malebranche = Evil Claws
• Farinata is the leader of the Ghibellines
• Beatrice resides Heaven after death
• Judas is unable to speak because Lucifer is chewing on his head
• Earthquake in Hell is caused by Christ's death
• Francesca tells Dante the story of Paolo and Francesca
• Centaurs are cross between man and horse
• A leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf block Dante from the sunlit hill in Canto I
• Dante was exiled from Florence
• Dante's enemy pope is Boniface VIII
• Eighth Circle of Hell is divided into ten pits
• Dante believed that Rome is more important than all others
• Antaeus brings Dante from Eighth to the Ninth Circle of Hell
• abandon all hope, you who enter here
• An angelic messenger opens the gates of Dis
• Geryon represents fraud
• Souls must cross the River Acheron before they enter Hell
• Virgil resides in Limbo
• Inferno verse is Terza rima
• Dante expresses sympathy towards adulterers
• Farinata prophesize Dante's exile
• Three Aristotelian dispositions counter to Heaven’s will are Incontinence, Malice, Insane Brutality
• Events correspond with changes in Hell are The Harrowing and The Last Judgement
• Malebolge = Evil Ditches
• Malacoda is the leader of Malebranche
• Caiaphas's punishment is crucifixion
• Ninth Circle’s frozen river is Cocytus
• Worst kind of traitor is the traitor to benefactor
• Fraud is the greatest sin because it is contrary to love
• Judas is the greatest sinner
• Dante's journey to Hell ends on Easter Sunday
• Inferno has 33 cantos
• Beatrice represents divine revelation
• Lion represents the sin of violence
• Leopard represents the sin of malicious
• She-wolf represents the sin of incontinence