THE

DIVINE COMEDY

OF

DANTE ALIGHIERI

TRANSLATED BY

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

I follow here the footing of thy fecte
That with thy meaning so I may the rather meete.

SPEASER,

LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, LIMITED

BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL
MANCHESTER AND NEW YORK

1895

LONDON: BRADBURY, AGNEW, & co. LD., PRINTERS, WUITEFRIARS.

CANTO I.

PAGE

CANTO VIII. PAGI

The Dark Forest. -The Hill of Phlegyas. · Philippo Argenti.

Difficulty.–The Panther, the The Gate of the City of Dis 25

Lion, and the Wolf.–Virgil 3

CANTO IX.

CANTO II.

Dante's Protest and Virgil's Ap-

The Furies. --The Angel. - The

City of Dis. - The Sixth Circle.

peal. - The Intercession of the

Three Ladies Benedight.

6 -Heresiarchs .

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CANTO III.

CANTO X.

The Gate of Hell.-The Inefhcient Farinata and Cavalcante de' Ca-

or Indifferent. Pope Celes-

valcanti.

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tine V.-The Shores of Acheron.

-Charon. The Earthquake

CANTO XI.

and the Swoon

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Pope Anastasius. — General De.

CANTO IV.

scription of the Inferno and its

Divisions.

The First Circle.-Limbo, or the

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Border Land of the Unbaptized.

- The Four Poets, Homer,

CANTO XII.

Horace, Ovid, and Lucan.-The The Minotaur.--The Seventh Cir.
Noble Castle of Philosophy

cle. - The Violent. Phlege-

thon.— The Violent against their

CANTO V.

Neighbours. — The Centaurs. –

The Second Circle.--Minos.-The Tyrants

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Wanton.-The Infernal Hurri.

cane.-Francesca da Rimini 16

CANTO XIII.

CANTO VI.

The Wood of Thorns.-The Har.

The Third Circle.-Cerberus.

pies.—The Violent against them.

selves. - Suicides. Pier della

The Gluttonous, -The Eternal

Rain.-Ciacco.

Vigna.-Lano and Jacopo da

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Sant' Andrea

CANTO VII.

The Fourth Circle. -Plutus.--The

CANTO XIV.

Avaricious and the Prodigal. – The Sand Waste.-The Violent

Fortune and her Wheel. The against God.-Capaneus.--The

Fifth Circle.-Styx.—The Iras Statue of Time, and the Four

cible and the Sullen.

22 Infernal Rivers

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