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The Evil Ditches of Malebolge in Canto 18 by Avery Levine

Join Dante and Virgil as they encounter the malebolge, a circle of stones housing sinners of simple fraud in various ditches. Explore the fates of panderers, seducers, and flatterers amidst demons and excrement, symbolizing their sins. Uncover literary devices and allusions in this dark journey through The Inferno.

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The Evil Ditches of Malebolge in Canto 18 by Avery Levine

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  1. Canto 18 By: Avery Levine The 8th Circle - Malebolge - The Evil Ditches

  2. What’s going on Dante and Virgil get a ride to Malebolge by Geryon, the monster of fraud. They see that malebolge is a circle of stones that slant like an amphitheater. It is made up of 10 ditches with different sinners who committed versions of simple fraud. The first circle houses the panderers and seducers and the second circle houses the flatterers. Gustave Dore

  3. Panderers and Seducers The first ditch (or bolgia) has 2 lines of people, each driven by horned demons who poke at them with lashes. In life the sinners drove others to serve their own corrupt needs so now they’re being driven by the demons. The horned demons symbolize the sinners own vicious natures and embodies their own guilty consciences. The horns may symbolize cuckoldry and adultery Sandro Botticelli

  4. The Flatterers Less is written about the flatterers, but the second bolgia is where they are sunk in excrement, unable to escape. The excrement represents the “true equivalent of their false flatteries on earth”, meaning that they were full of it when they were living so now they soak in it. Gustave Dore

  5. Notable appearances Bolgia 1- Panderers and Seducers Venedico Caccianemico- pimp Jason - seducer Bolgia 2 - The Flatterers Alessio Interminelli da Lucca - member of prominent white family (alive in 1295) Thaïs - immoderate flattery towards her lover

  6. Literary devices Simile - page 144, lines 7-13 “The border that remains between the well-pit...offering a general prospect like the ground that lies around one of those ancient castles whose walls are girded many times around by concentric moats. Repetition that shows progression - page 144 lines 22-24 “below… new souls in pain appeared, new torments, and new devils black as pitch.”

  7. Allusion On page 145, lines 28-33, “Just so the Romans… towards Mount Giordano” allude to Pope Boniface VIII proclaiming 1300 a jubilee year, which led to “throngs of pilgrims” going to Rome

  8. Works cited Alighieri, Dante. The Inferno. New York, Signet Classics. Botticelli, Sandro. Punishment of the Panderers and Seducers and the Flatterers. 1480. Sandro Botticelli, www.sandro-botticelli.org/canto-xviii/. Accessed 25 Sept. 2019. Dante's inferno (circles of hell map). Reddit, www.reddit.com/r/comments/ bxmuhh/dantes_inferno_circles_of_hell_map/. Accessed 25 Sept. 2019. Dore, Gustave. Geryon. 1890. The World of Dante, www.worldofdante.org/ pop_up_query.php?dbid=I037&show=more. Accessed 25 Sept. 2019. ---. Paramours and Flatterers. Poetry in Translation, www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italian/DantInf15to21.php. Accessed 25 Sept. 2019.

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