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The deeper levels are organised into one circle for violence (Circle 7) and two circles for fraud (Circles 8 and 9). As a Christian, Dante adds Circle 1 (Limbo) to Upper Hell and Circle 6 (Heresy) to Lower Hell, making 9 Circles in total; incorporating the Vestibule of the Futile, this leads to Hell containing 10 main divisions. [26]
In Dante's version of Hell, categories of sin are punished in different circles, with the depth of the circle (and placement within that circle) symbolic of the amount of punishment to be inflicted. Sinners placed in the upper circles of Hell are given relatively minor punishments, while sinners in the depths of Hell endure far greater torments.
Seventh circle of hell; Sixth circle of hell; T. Third circle of hell This page was last edited on 23 July 2023, at 19:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
along the seventh circle's outer margin, to where the melancholy people sat. Despondency was bursting from their eyes; (46) this side, then that, their hands kept fending off, at times the flames, at times the burning soil: Not otherwise do dogs in summer-now (49) with muzzle, now with paw-when they are bitten
There is a drop from the sixth circle to the three rings of the seventh circle, then again to the ten rings of the eighth circle, and, at the bottom, to the icy ninth circle. In Dante Alighieri 's The Divine Comedy , the City of Dis ( Italian : Dite Italian pronunciation: [ˈdiːte] ) encompasses the sixth through the ninth circles of Hell .
The third round consists of the illustrations for cantos XV, XVI and XVII, which depict the punishment of those who sinned by violence against God, nature and art. [24] Botticelli uses thirteen drawings to illustrate the eighth circle of Hell, depicting ten chasms that Dante and Virgil descend through a ridge. [2]
He was a thief who lived in Pistoia, as his name ("di Pistoia" meaning "of Pistoia") indicates; when he died, he was sent to the seventh bolgia (round; in Italian, "ditch" or "pouch") of the eighth circle of Hell, where thieves are punished. In that bolgia, his punishment was to be stung by a serpent, reduced to ashes, and then restored to his ...
along the seventh circle's outer margin, to where the melancholy people sat. Despondency was bursting from their eyes; (46) this side, then that, their hands kept fending off, at times the flames, at times the burning soil: Not otherwise do dogs in summer-now (49) with muzzle, now with paw-when they are bitten