Inferno

Lost in the wood, Dante meets Virgil and must change his path.

Dante doubts himself, and Virgil tells him who has been sent to save him.

Dante enters Hell, sees the neutrals, and arrives at the bank of Acheron where Charon ferries the damned across.

In the first circle, virtuous souls live without hope.

Second circle: the lustful swept by the infernal wind. Dante speaks with Paolo and Francesca.

Third circle: eternal rain, Cerberus, Ciacco, and the prophecy about Florence.

Pluto yields to Virgil, and then Dante sees the avaricious pushing weights and the wrathful in the mire.

Dante crosses the swamp of the Styx with Phlegyas, meets Filippo Argenti, and arrives before the gates of Dis.

Dante waits anxiously before Dis. The Furies appear, then an angel who unlocks the gates of Hell.

In the sixth circle Dante meets Farinata, Cavalcante, and receives the secret of political prophecy.

On the ledge of the seventh circle Dante stops, and Virgil explains the order of the punishments and the hierarchy of evil.

Dante descends into the seventh circle, passes the Minotaur, and encounters the Centaurs on the Phlegethon.

Dante enters the second ring of the seventh circle, a wood of deformed trees inhabited by soul-plants.

Hundred flames upon the sand and Capaneus who does not bend: the defiance of the blasphemers.

Dante meets ser Brunetto among the sodomites and receives harsh political prophecies from him.

Three Florentine shades ask for news of Florence and Dante answers with a prophecy, before the roar of the waterfall.

Dante descends into the eighth circle on the back of Geryon, after seeing the usurers on the sand.

Dante enters the Malebolge and traverses the first two ditches, among the scourged and the flatterers immersed in filth.

In the third bolgia the simoniacs are planted head-down in holes in the rock, with their feet burned by fire.

In the eighth circle, fourth ditch, Dante encounters the soothsayers forced to walk with their heads turned backward.

In the fifth bolgia the barrators seethe in pitch, and the Malebranche act as guardians and interlocutors.

In the eighth ditch a cunning Navarrese barrator escapes the Malebranche and two devils fall into the pitch.

Virgil straddles the bank of the ditch, carrying Dante to safety: the ninth bolgia of the hypocrites begins.

Dante descends into the eighth bolgia of the thieves, where serpents torment the damned, and meets Vanni Fucci.

In the eighth ditch Dante witnesses the bodies of thieves fusing together and transforming into serpents and vice versa.

In the ninth bolgia, sowers of discord burn wrapped in flames: Ulysses recounts his final voyage.

In the ninth bolgia Dante speaks with a damned soul who was cunning and then corrupted by the pope.

In the ninth bolgia Dante sees the bodies of the sowers of schism split open by a devil and listens to their prophecies.

In the final bolgia the damned are covered in sores and scratch themselves because of the itching. Dante meets two alchemists.

In the last ditch Dante observes those who falsified themselves and those who falsified the coinage, and he is rebuked by Virgil.

In the central pit of Hell Dante discovers the giants and descends with Antaeus toward Cocytus.

Upon the frozen lake of Cocytus Dante enters Caina and encounters the betrayers of their own loved ones.

The last canto of the Inferno: Ugolino gnaws the archbishop and Dante meets friar Alberigo.

The center of the earth, Lucifer, and the ascent back to the stars.