Characters

• 1. Dante Alighien - author of The Divine Comedy, also the protagonist
• Virgil - Dante's guide and Protector in Inferno, also a prisoner of Hell himself.
• Satan- also known as lucifer, he is embedded in frozen marsh.
• Beatrice- who sends virgil to dante, also a blessed soul in heaven.
• Charon - he is an old bearded man with fiery eyes
• Minotaur - is a monstrous judge who sits at entrance to the second circle of hell.
• Paolo and Francesca of Rimini - Two lovers who punished in Second circle
• Cerberus


  A Three headed dog placed by Dante
• Ciacco


  A former gluttonous citizen of Florence in third circle
• Plutus


  God of riches in fourth circle
• Phlegyas


  A surly boatman who takes Virgil and Dante to Styx river
• Filippo Argenti


  An arrogant and cruel former citizen of Florence, also a Black Guelph
• Farinata


  Father in law's of Dante's best friend and a leader of Ghibelline party
• Minotaur


  Half man half bull who guards the entrance of seventh circle
• Chiron


  The leader of Centaurs, half man half horse
• Pier delle Vigne


  Former advisor of Frederick II
• Capaneus


  A king famous for his defiance of the gods
• Brunetto Latini


  A leader of the Guelf party and a poet of some fame
• Geryon


  The king of Spain
• Pope Nicholas III


  A corrupt pope who reigned from 1277 to 1280
• Malacoda


  The leader of hook demons, Malabranche who reign over the fifth chasm in eight circle
• Vanni Fucci


  A member of Black Guelph party from the city of Pistola
• Ulysses


  Mythical adventurer and soldier in the Trojan war
• Antaeus


  He was renowned for his deeds of strength, a mythological giant
• Bocca


  A Ghibeline by blood when fighting the Guelph
• Friar Alberigo


  A traitor to hospitality
• Judas, Brutus and Cassius


  The three archetypal traitors chewed by Satan