Week 8: Dante's Inferno Assignments - Reading - Resources - Images

Reading Overview

You will be reading most of Dante's Inferno but some pages have been omitted, especially passages related to the complex political struggles of Dante's time (omitted passages are indicated with [...]). At the bottom of each page, you will find a link to a complete version of the Inferno where you can read the missing passages if you want.

Background Reading

1. Canto 1: Dante and Virgil
2. Canto 3: The Gate of Hell
3. Canto 4: Limbo
4. Canto 4: Poets and Philosophers
5. Canto 5: Paolo and Francesca
6. Canto 6-7: Cerberus and Pluto
7. Canto 7-8: Styx and Phlegyas
8. Canto 8-9: The Fallen Angels
9. Canto 9: The Heretics
10. Canto 12: The Minotaur and the Centaurs
11. Canto 12-13-14: Capaneus
12. Canto 14 and 17: Geryon
13. Canto 17-18: Descending on Geryon's Back
14. Canto 18-19 and 21: Virgil and the Demons
15. Canto 21 and 23: Caiaphas
16. Canto 23-24: An Ascent
17. Canto 26: Ulysses and Diomede
18. Canto 29-30: Griffolino the Alchemist
19. Canto 30: Sinon
20. Canto 31: The Giants
21. Canto 32-33: Ugolino
22. Canto 34: Satan and the Stars

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