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Inferno : Canto 13 -- Circle 7, 2 nd Ring

Inferno : Canto 13 -- Circle 7, 2 nd Ring. Sara Montalbano World Literature 230-01. Summary. In the Second Ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell, Virgil and Dante enter a strange wood filled with black and gnarled trees. The souls in this ring—those who

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Inferno : Canto 13 -- Circle 7, 2 nd Ring

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  1. Inferno: Canto 13 -- Circle 7, 2nd Ring Sara Montalbano World Literature 230-01

  2. Summary • In the Second Ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell, Virgil and Dante enter a strange wood filled with black and gnarled trees. • The souls in this ring—those who were violent against themselves or their possessions (Suicides and Squanderers, respectively)—have been transformed into trees.  

  3. New Characters • Pier della Vigna, an advisor to Emperor Frederick, and that he was a moral and admirable man. But when an envious group of scheming courtiers blackened his name with lies, he felt such shame that he took his own life.

  4. Harpies • Harpies—foul creatures that are half woman, half bird.They perched in the suicide-trees, whose leaves they tear and eat--thus producing both pain and an outlet for the accompanying laments of the souls (Inf. 13.13-15; 101-2).

  5. Hound Dogs Two young men run crashing through the wood, interrupting Dante's conversation with the tree-soul ( these men were also known as squanderers). One of the men, Jacomo da Sant'Andrea, falls behind and leaps into a bush; vicious dogs have been pursuing him, and now they rend him to pieces.

  6. The End • Virgil and Dante then speak to a bush, which is also a soul: it speaks of the suffering that has overwhelmed Florence ever since it decided to make St. John the Baptist its patron, replacing its old patron, Mars (a Roman god). The bush-soul adds that he was a Florentine man in life who hanged himself.

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