Dante

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Dantes Inferno Canto 28

• By Tori Dupuy

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Canto 28

• In this canto Dante and Virgil enter the 9th
  bolgia in the 8th circle.
• Here is where the guilty are punished.
• They are punished by continually getting ripped
  apart by a demon with a bloody sword.
• There are 3 classes that vary in the degree of
  guilt.

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The three Classes of Guilt

• Class 3
• Sowers of Discord Between Kinsmen
• The only sinner here is punished by forever
  having his head separated from the rest of his
  body.

• Class 1
• Sowers of Religious Discord
• These sinners are ripped apart.

• Class 2
• Sowers of Political Discord
• These sinners are mutilated according to the
  nature of their sin.

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Characters

• First class
• Mahomet-The chief among the sowers of religious
  discord. He asks Dante to send a warning to Fra
  Dolcino.
• Ali-Mahomets son-in-law.
• Second Class
• Pier De Medicina-Tells Dante to remember him and
  to give a warning to Messers Guido and
  Angiolello.
• Curio-The man who told Caesar a man prepared is
  a man hurt by delay.
• Mosca Dei Lamberti-A soul that argued with Dante
  then ran off.
• Third Class
• Bertrand De Born- The man that set the young king
  on to mutiny by separating him from his father.
  He is forever to be separated from his head.

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The Demon

• The demon (unnamed) in this canto rips open the
  souls with a sword, then sends them away. By the
  time they walk around the circle their wounds
  have healed and the demon rips them open again.

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The souls

• Most of the souls in this canto are ripped open
  by the demon, and their insides are hanging out
  of their bodies.
• Their sin was to render what God had meant to be
  united, so their punishment it to be hacked and
  torn through all eternity.