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Dante’s Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Da
Dante’s Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Da
Dante’s Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Da
Dante’s Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Da
Dante’s Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Da
Dante’s Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Da
Dante’s Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Da
Dante’s Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Da
Dante’s Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Da
Dante’s Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Da
Dante’s Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Da
Dante’s Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Da

Dante’s Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Da


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Dante’s Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Da
 
Dantes Inferno translated by The Rev Henry Francis Cary from the original of Danta Alighieri and illustrated with the designs of M Gustave Dore
Hard Cover  Binding edge missing, cover loose, some pages loose, foxing.  See photos
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CONTENTS
Life of Dantevii
Chronological View of the Vision of Dantexxii
THE VISION OF HELL                                                                                                                                     
Canto 1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     The writer having lost his way in a gloomy forest, and being hindered by certain wild beasts from ascending mountain, is met by Virgil, who promises to show him the punishments of Hell, and afterwards of Purgatory: and that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet1
Canto 2                                                                                                                                                                                                       After the invocation. Which poets are used to prefix to their works, he shows that, on a consideration of his own strength, he doubted whether it sufficed for the journey proposed to him, but that, being comforted by Virgil, he at last took courage, and followed him as his guide master7
Canto 3                                                                                                                                                                                
Dante, following Virgil, comes to the gate of Hell: where, after having read the dreadful words that are written thereon, they both enter. Here, as he understands from Virgil, those were punished who had passed their time (for  living it could not be called) in a state of apathy and indifference both to good and evil. Then pursuing their way, they arrive at the river Acheron, and there find the old ferryman Charon, who takes the spirits over to the opposite shore, which as soon as Dante reaches, he is seized with terror, and falls into a trance.
Canto 4                                                                                                                                                     
The poet, being roused by a clap of thunder, and following his guide onwards, descends into Limbo, which is the first circle of Hell, where he finds the souls of those who, although they have lived virtuously, and have no to suffer for great sins, nevertheless, through lack of baptism, merit not the bliss of Paradise. Hence he is led on by Virgil to descend into the second circle.17
Canto 5                                                                                                                                                              
Coming into the second circle of Hell, Dante at the entrance beholds Minos, the Infernal Judge, by whom he is admonished to beware how he enters those regions. Here he witnesses the punishment of carnal sinners, who are tost about ceaselessly in the dark air by the most furious winds. Amongst these, he meets with Francesca of Rimini, through pity at whose sad tale he falls fainting to the ground23
Canto 6                                                                                                                                                                                     
On his recovery, the poet finds himself n the third circle, where the gluttonous are punished. Their torment is, to lie in the mire, under a continual and heavy storm of hail, snow, and discolored water: Cerebus on earth was named Ciacco, foretells the divisions with which Florence is about to be distracted. Dante proposes a question to his guide, who solves it: and they proceed towards the fourth  circle.  29
Canto 7                                                                                                                                                                  
In the present canto Dante  describes his descent into the fourth circle, at the beginning of which he sees Plutus stationed. Here one like doom awaits the prodigal and the avaricious: which is to meet in direful conflict, rolling great weights against each other with mutual upraidings. From hence Virgil takes occasion to show how vain the goods that are committed into the charge of Fortune: and this moves our author to inquire what being Fortune is, of whom he speaks: which question being resolved, they go down into the fifth circle, where they find the wrathful and gloomy tormented in the Tygian lake. Having mad a compass round great part of this lake, they came at last to the base of a lofty tower.34
Canto 8                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A signal having been made from the tower, Phlegyas, the ferryman of the lake, speedily crosses it, and conveys Virgil and Dante to the other side. On their passage they meet with Filippo Argenti, whose fury and torment are described. They then arrive at the city of Dis, the entrance whereto is denied, and the portals closed against them by many demons.30
CANTO 9                                                                                                                                                    
After some hindrances, and having seen the hellish furies and other monsters, the poet, by the help of an angel, enters the city of Dis, wherein lie discovers that the heretics are punished in tombs burning with intense fire; and he, together with Virgil,. passes onwards between the sepulchres and the walls of the city.44
CANTO 10                                                                                                                                                                    
Dante, having obtained permission from his guide, holds discourse with Farinata degli Uberti and Cavalcante Cavalcanti, who lie in their fiery tombs that are yet open, and not to be closed up till after the last judgment. Farinata predicts the poet's exile from Florence; and shows him that the condemned have knowledge of future things, but are ignorant of what is at present passing, unless it be revealed by some new comer from earth . 43
CANTO 11                                                                                                                                             
Dante arrives at the verge of a rocky precipice which encloses the seventh circle, where he sees the sepulchre of Anastasius the heretic, behind the lid of which pausing a little, to make himself capable by degrees of enduring the fetid smell that steamed upward from the abyss, he is instructed by Virgil concerning the manner in which the three following circles are disposed, and what description of sinners is punished in each. He then inquires the reason why the carnal, the gluttonous, the avaricious and prodigal, the wrathful and gloomy, suffer not their punishments within the city of Dis. He next asks how the crime of usury is an offence against God ; and at length the two poets go towards the place from whence a passage leads down to the seventh circle . 55
CANTO 12                                                                                                                                                                
Descending by a very rugged way into the seventh circle, where the violent are punished, Dante and his leader find it guarded by the Minotaur; whose fury being pacified by Virgil, they step downwards from crag to crag; till, drawing near the bottom, they descry a river of blood, wherein are tormented such as have committed violence against their neighbor. At these, when they strive to emerge from the blood, a troop of Centaurs, running along the side of the river, aim their arrows; and three of their band opposing our travellers at the foot of the steep, Virgil prevails so far, that one consents to carry them both across the stream; and on their passage Dante is informed by him of the course of the river, and of those that are punished therein . 60
CANTO 13                                                                                                                                                          
Still in the seventh circle, Dante enters its second compartment, which contains both those who have clone violence on their own persons and those who have violently consumed their goods; the first changed into rough and knotted trees whereon the harpies build their nests, the latter chased and torn by black female mastiffs. Among the former, Pierro delle Vigne, is one who tells him the cause of his having committed suicide, and moreover in what manner the souls are transformed into those trunks. Of the latter crew, he recognizes Lano, a Siennese, and Giacomo, a Paduan; and lastly, a Florentine, who had hung himself from his own roof, speaks to him of the calamities of his countrymen . 66
CANTO 14                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             They arrive at the beginning of the third of those compartments into which this seventh circle is divided. It is a plain of dry and hot sand, where three kinds of violence are punished-namely, against God, against Nature, and against Art; and those who have thus sinned are tormented by flakes of fire, which are eternally showering down upon them. Among the violent against God is found Capaneus, whose blasphemies they hear. Next, turning to the left along the forest of self-slayers, and having journeyed a little onwards, they meet with a streamlet of blood that issues from the forest and traverses the sandy place" Here Virgil speaks to our poet of a huge ancient statue that stands within Mount Ida in Crete, from a fissure in which statue there is a dripping of tears, from which the said streamlet, together with the three other infernal rivers, are formed .   72
CANTO 15                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Taking their way upon one of the mounds by which the streamlet, spoken of in the last canto, was embanked, and having gone so far that they could no longer have discerned the forest if they had turned round to look for it, they meet a troop of spirits that come along the sand by the side of the pier. These are they who have done violence to Nature; and amongst them Dante distinguishes Brunetto Latini, who had been formerly his master; with whom, turning a little backward, he holds a discourse, which occupies the remainder of this canto .  77
CANTO 16                                                                                                                                                
Journeying along the pier, which crosses the sand, they are now so near the end of it as to bear the noise of the stream falling into the eighth circle, when they meet the spirits of three military men, who, judging Dante from his dress to be a countryman of theirs, entreat him to stop. He complies, and speaks with them. The two poets then reach the place where the water descends, being the termination of this third compartment in the seventh circle; and here Virgil having thrown down into the hollow a cord, wherewith Dante was girt, they behold at that signal a monstrous and horrible figure come swimming up to them .     83


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