Dante's Inferno (Cantos 11-22)

The Violent Against Neighbors

killed other people
boiling in blood river at different levels w/ guiltiness
represents blood they spilled during their lives

Alexander the Great

a violent against neighbor sinner

Minotaur

half bull half man monster that protects the violent against neighbors

Phlegethon

boiling blood river

Centaurs

half man half horse that shoot arrows at the violent against neighbors if they try escaping

Chiron, Nessus, Pholus

the centaurs

Violent Against Themselves

people who killed themselves that are now trees and can only speak when bitten by Harpies
They do not get bodies in hell because they destroyed them in their life

Pier Delle Vigrie

minister who killed himself to escape torture

Harpies

bats with human heads, big bellies, and wings that bite trees

Squanderers

destroyed God's gifts and creations that are chased by black dogs until caught and then get their limbs ripped off
their ripped off limbs represent the things they wasted

Jacomo

Squanderer known for setting fires

The Violent Against God, Nature, and Art

people lying, wandering, and squatting in hot sand while flames and ashes fall like snow on them
Suffer from rath of nature (sand) and rath of God (fire) because they sinned against them in life

Blasphemers and Chief Sinners

denied and spoke against God that has the worst punishment of the violent against God which have to lie on the floor

Capaneus

chief sinner that has to lie on the sands that is still blaspheming God

Sodomites

people roaming in the sand that committed unnatural sexual acts not considered natural by the bible

Ser Brunetto Latino

sodomite writer that Dante knows

Usurers

sinners who are squatting in the sands that lent money and charged large amounts of interest

Geryon

monster who rises from a waterfall that gives Dante and Virgil a ride

Malebolge

bad ditches

Panderers

"pimps" that sell women for own benefit that are now being lashed by horned demons
During life the women they would pimp would be whipped and now they are whipped

Seducers

People who would make others fall in love and then dip also being whipped

Venedico Caccianemico

pimp who sold his sister and is now suffering with the panderers

Jason

seduced Hypsipyle and left

Flatterers

people who tell others what they want to hear and lie and kiss up for their own gain that are suffering in a pit of poop
they were full of shit in life and are in shit for eternity

Alessio Interminei

a flatterer

Simoniacs

people who used their position in the church to gain profit
Holes are all over the ditch which the sinners are upside down in with their feet on fire
Made a mockery out of the church and are made a mockery in hell

Pope Nicholas III

chief sinner of the simoniacs

Fortune Tellers and Diviners

attempted to look in the future like God
Their heads are turned backwards on their body and they are forced to walk backwards
They attempted to move forward in life so now they are moving backward for eternity

Michael Scott

a fortune teller now burning in hell

The Grafters

used bribery to get ahead that are in boiling tar being torn to pieces by demons if attempted to escape
they had sticky hands and tried to get their hands on whatever they could so are being stuck in tar and having their limbs torn off for eternity

Bonturo

a politician who is a grafter