Inferno Cantos 12-34

"for when the faculty of intellect is joined with brute force and with evil will, no man can win against such an alliance."

Canto 31 Traitors, Complex Fraud, Giants

"If once he was as fair as now he's foul and dared to raise his brows against his Maker it is fitting that all grief should spring from him."

Canto 34 Traitors to Lords, Lucifer

"Here the weeping puts an end to weeping, and the grief that finds no outlet from the eyes turns inward to intensify the anguish."

Canto 33 Traitors to Guests, Cocytus level of Tolomea

"Not far from here you'll see Antaeus, who can speak and is not chained; he will set us down in the very pit of sin."

Canto 31 Virgil to Dante; transport down to Cocytus

"Oh, you who are two souls within one fire!"

Canto 26 Fraud: False Counsellors; Ulysses and Diomed; pair parallels Francesca and Paolo; Greek figures of Trojan War

"And I, by then gone blind...two days I called their names. The hunger proved more powerful than grief."

Canto 33 Traitors to Guests; Count Ugolino; cannibalism

"Fear not, I tell you: the sin you will commit, it is forgiven...Mine is the power, as you cannot deny, to lock and unlock Heaven.

Canto 27 Fraud: False Counselors and Deceivers; Original speaker - Pope Boniface, speaker retelling in Hell - Guido

"Don't touch him, don't cheat me of what is mine!...Perhaps you never stopped to think that I might be somewhat of a logician."

Canto 27 Fraud: False Counselors; original speaker - black cherubim, speaker in hell - Guido

"that soul up there who suffers most of all,...the one with head inside and legs out kicking"

Canto 34 Traitors to Lords; about Judas Iscariot; endures greater punishment than other two; parallels punishment of simonists in C19 and Lucifer himself

"I had my fingers twisted in his hair and already I'd pulled out more than one fistful"

Canto 32 Complex Fraud: Traitors to Family; Dante interacting with Bocca

"Lifting his mouth from his horrendous meal, this sinner first wiped off his messy lips,...and spoke: 'You want me to renew a grief so desperate that just the thought of it, much less the telling, grips my heart with pain"

Canto 33 Complex Fraud: Traitors to guests; Count Ugolino speaks to Dante; betrayed his country

"I am he who served fruit from the evil orchard"

Canto 33 Complex Fraud: Traitors to guests; Friar Alberigo speaking to Dante

"'But now, at last, give me the hand you promised. Open my eyes.' I did not open them. To be mean to him was a generous reward."

Canto 33 Complex Fraud: Traitors to guests; Friar Alberigo asking a favor of Dante; Dante at first agrees but then refuses

"I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars"

Canto 34: Complex Fraud: Traitors to Lord; end of Dante's journey in hell - hope; liminal threshold; all three canticles end with "stars" - ever upward movement

"the way is long, the road a rough climb up"

Canto 34: Complex Fraud: Traitors to Lord; Virgil instructing Dante; sinful life is easy, the moral life is hard

"That impaled figure you see there advised the Pharisees it was expedient to sacrifice one man for all the people"

Canto 23: Simple Fraud: Hypocrites; about Caiaphas, high priest of the Jews; speaker - Friar Catalano

"And one of these, not many years ago, I smashed for someone who was drowning in it: Let this be mankind's picture of truth"

Canto 19: Fraud; Simony; Poet Dante telling historical event that added to his exile from Florence; baptismal

"I once was dressed in the great mantle. But actually I was the she-bear's son, so greedy to advance my cubs, that wealth I pocketed in life, and here, myself"

Canto 19 Fraud - Simonists; speaker Pope Nicholas III

"and , too with his Cadmus and Arethusa -- though he metamorphosed one into a snake, the other to a foundation"

Canto 25 Fraud - Thieves; in Ovid's Metamorphosis Cadmus takes the form of a snake, Arethusa a fountain

What is the sin of Circle 7, 8,9?

Violence, Fraud (simple and complex), Treachery

Sins of Treachery in order from least to worst:

Kin, Country, Guests, Lord

Canto 31 - short response

Know sin of this level, Nimrod and his horn, his Biblical allusion, Dante's message about language and communication

Canto 34 - short response

Know sin of this level, name of this level and its origin; order of Lucifer's three faces, color, who is being eaten; reason for 3 people being punished

Canto 31 - paragraph

Dante's portrayal of the linguistic fall of man due to hubris. Focus heavily on lines 67-81.