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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Cantos I-IV

Catholic Daily Brief

Translation: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Canto I: The Dark Forest. The Hill of Difficulty. The Panther, the Lion, and the Wolf. Virgil. Canto II: The Descent. Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal. The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight. Canto III: The Gate of Hell. The Inefficient or Indifferent. Pope Celestine V ("Who made the great refusal"). The Shores of Acheron. Charon. The Earthquake and the Swoon. Canto IV: The First Circle, Limbo: Virtuous Pagans and the Un- baptized. The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. The Noble Castle of Philosophy -Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, etc.