“Hence in the second circle, thither bann’d, nest hypocrites, and flatterers, whoso tales' witchcraft, forging, theft and simony, procurers, barrators and suchlike jakes”
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Stench from the 7th circle of hell. The poets descend further and come to a group of broken boulders (the Harrowing of Hell), behind which they rest a bit so that they can become accustomed to the foul stink that rises from the lower circles. Virgil explains the structure of lower hell, Circle VII, the next circle of violence (symbolically the sins of the lion), is comprised of three smaller circles: one circle for Violence against Persons and their goods (property), another circle for Violence against Themselves (suicides), and the final circle for Violence against God, Art (industry), and Nature (by the blasphemers, sexual deviants and usurers [money lenders]). The geography of Hell is one of the most distinctive features of Inferno, and it is as meticulous as the structure of the poem.