Outline of Dante's Inferno

Upper Hell, Incontinence
Region Sinners Punishment
Vestibule Trimmers, neutrals Stung by insects, run after banners
Circle I Virtuous pagans, unbaptized Melancholy, desire without hope
Circle II The lustful Blown by storm winds
Circle III The gluttons Discomfort, all senses punished
Circle IV The avaricious and the prodigal Pushing rocks, useless labor
Circle V The angry and the sullen The angry thrashing about helplessly
The sullen submerged, emitting bubbles
Lower Hell, Malice (Violence and Fraud)
Circle VI Heretics In burning tombs
Circle VII The Violent
Round 1 against neighbors, fellow men Submerged in hot blood
Round 2 against self (suiciders) Enclosed in new bodies, as trees and bushes
Round 3 against God (blasphemers, sodomites, usurers) On burning sand in rain of fire
Circle VIII Fraud against those who have no special trust
Bolgia 1 Panderers and seducers Whipped by devils
Bolgia 2 Flatterers Covered with filth
Bolgia 3 Simonists Upside down in holes, feet on fire
Bolgia 4 Soothsayers Heads twisted, turned backward
Bolgia 5 Barrators Covered by boiling pitch
Bolgia 6 Hypocrites Wearing leaden mantles
Bolgia 7 Thieves In snake pit, transformations
Bolgia 8 Evil counselors Concealed in flames
Bolgia 9 Sowers of discord Wounds, mutilations
Bolgia 10 Falsifiers Diseases (leprosy, madness, dropsy, high fever)
Circle IX Fraudulent against those who have special trust
Caina Murderers of kindred In ice to necks, heads bent forward
Antenora Traitors to party or country
Murderers of guests
In ice to necks
In ice to neck, heads bent backward
Guidecca Traitors to lords and benefactors Completely submerged in ice
At the Center of the Earth (Universal sins)
Lucifer with Juda, Brutus, and Cassius in his three mouths, with three sets of wings sending forth a freezing blast of impotence, ignorance, and hatred.

Prepared by Petre Petrov (petrov+@pitt.edu).