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Inferno (Hell), Canto 13 – The Forest of Those ...

“Each of us, once the human shape, here takes a stock’s:”

Inferno (Hell), Canto 12 – Minotaur

“Haply thou deemst that the duke of Athens, by whom done to death wast thou in the upper world, draws near’ my sage, turn’d tow’rds him, cried”

Inferno (Hell), Canto 11 – At the edge of the S...

“hence in the second circle, thither bann’d, nest hypocrites, and flatterers, whoso tales witchcraft, forging, theft and simony, procurers, barrators and suchlike jakes”

Inferno (Hell), Canto 10 – Heretics

“When I at his tomb’s foot was standing now, he eyed me awhile: then, almost with disdain, he asked me: ‘Of what lineage are thou?’”

Inferno (Hell), Canto 9 – Erinnyes

“He ceased. Each with her nails was clawing her breast; self-smitten with their palms, they screamed so shrill, that I, for dread, close to the poet press’d”

Inferno (Hell), Canto 8 – Choleric People

“For, fighting, not with hands alone they came to blows, but with the head and breast and feet: with teeth, too, did piece-meal each other maim”