Circle 7: The Violent

Morgan Walker, Amy Loy, Grant Shealy

The Minotaur-Gustave Dor

Canto XII, Circle 7, Ring 1: Violent Against Others

Terrain: river of blood...boiling... (XII.74) Sin: violent against others-Whoe'er by violence doth injure others." (XII.74) Punishment: boiling in river of blood, centaurs shoot sinners with arrows (XII.75) Fits Crime: literal wallowing in blood, violence from centaurs as they were violent
to others

Sinners: Alexander the Great and Dionysius I Reaction: Dante observes the murderers but
does not react. (XII.94)

of Syracuse-Alexander, and fierce Dionysius" (XII.76)

Important people, objects, or monsters:

Minotaur-"infamy of Crete" (XII.72), Centaurs (Chiron and Nessus) (XII.74)

Loy, Shealy, Walker

The Inferno, Canto 12-Gustave Dor

Canto XIII, Circle 7, Ring 2: Violent Against Self

Terrain: "...within a wood...not branches smooth but gnarled and intertangled." (XIII.78) Sin: violent against themselves/their substance: suicides, squanderers. (XI.68) Punishment: Suicides: turned into trees and "[The Harpies] make laments upon [them]" (XIII.78), can
only speak when broken

Fits Crime: They destroyed themselves so they were

eternally destroyed (XIII.82)

Squanderers: naked, chased and dismembered by "she-mastiffs" (XIII.78)

Sinners: Pierre delle Vigne "I am the one who both

keys had...of Fredrick's heart" (XIII.80), Arcolano of Siena and Jacopo de Santo Andrea-famous squanderers (XIII.82-3) pity is in my heart" (XIII.82-83)

Reaction: Dante feels sorry for the suicides "such Other Important People, Objects, or Monsters:
Loy, Shealy, Walker
Harpies-part women, part bird and reptile (XIII.78)

The Inferno, Canto 13-Gustave Dor

Cantos XIV-XVII, Circle 7, Ring 3: Violent Against God, Nature, or Art

Terrain: burning sand, fiery rain (XIV.85-6) Reaction: Dante shows respect to many of the sodomites but feels revulsion at the sight of the Sin: violent against God/Nature/Art usurers (XVI. 124) blasphemers (XIV.87) Other Important People, Objects, or Monsters: homosexuals ("Sodomites") (XV.114) Old Man of Crete (XV.88)-origin of all rivers in usurers (XI.71) Hell Punishment: Flakes of fire rain down (XIV. Rope/cord-summons Geryon (XV.101) 86) Geryon, monster of Fraud (XVI.102) provides Blasphemersstretched out on the sand Homosexuals- run in circles Usurers- huddled on the ground Fits Crime: fiery rain symbolizes God's
wrath.

Dante and Virgil passage to Circle 8 (XVII.107)

Sinners: Capaneus (XIV.87), Brunetto Latini

(Dante's teacher) (XV.92) and noble Florentines,

Loy, Shealy, Walker

Brunetto Latini-Gustave Dor