An Introduction to the Study of Dante

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His purpose was different from Milton's; his genius of another order. His Hell is a huge inverted funnel piercing to the centre of the globe. 2 It is divided into four chief regions, and subdivided into nine circles. After passing the gate of Hell Charon ferries us across the river Acheron. On its farther shore is the Limbo of unbaptizecl souls — the first circle. The next four circles a re occupied by the carnal, the gluttons, the avaricious and the prodigal, 1 According to another scheme the
...poem opens on the night of April 7-8.
2 We might divide the Inferno into the City of Dis, which in- cludes the three regions in which the Violent, the Fraudulent, and the Traitorous souls are punished, and the milder region outside the City of Dis, in which is Limbo and the place of torment for the In- continent.
202 THE QUALITIES OF DANTE'S GENIUS the angry and the indolent. So far the descent through Hell is gradual : we are moving downwards by a slow and ample slope, at the base of which Styx stagnates in a marsh.


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