Who / Where ?
Which circle of Hell are Cantos 19, 22, and 24 all located in?
What is Circle 8 (Fraud / Malebolge)?
Why are the simoniacs buried upside down in holes?
What is because Dante is showing the Church’s moral order has been reversed/corrupted?
What group of demons guards the barrators in Canto 22?
Who are the Malebranche?
Which artist is famous for dramatic black-and-white illustrations of Dante’s Inferno?
Who is Gustave Doré?
Dante believed fraud was worse than violence because fraud destroys what?
What is trust?
In Canto 19, what sin are the souls being punished for?
What is simony (selling sacred things/church positions for money)?
In Canto 22, what does the sticky black pitch symbolize?
What is hidden corruption / secret political deals?
Which pope is punished among the simoniacs in Canto 19?
Who is Pope Nicholas III?
In many paintings of Canto 19, what body part is shown burning above the ground?
What are the feet?
Which canto most strongly criticizes political corruption?
What is Canto 22?
In Canto 22, what type of sinners are trapped in boiling pitch?
Who are the barrators (corrupt politicians / grafters)?
In Canto 24, thieves constantly transform with snakes because they lost what?
What is their human identity?
In Canto 24, what creatures constantly attack and transform the thieves?
What are snakes/serpents?
Why do artists often make the scenes in Circle 8 look dark, crowded, and chaotic?
What is to reflect moral corruption and confusion?
Which canto focuses most on transformation and loss of identity?
What is Canto 24?
In Canto 24, Dante encounters thieves being punished in which bolgia?
What is the seventh bolgia of Circle 8?
The punishments in Inferno are examples of this idea, where the punishment reflects the sin.
What is contrapasso?
Which Roman mythological figure is often connected to thieves and trickery in Inferno?
Who is Cacus?
In artistic depictions of Canto 24, why are snakes important symbols?
What is because they represent deception, stealing, and loss of identity?
Why might Dante place corrupt religious leaders deeper in Hell than many violent sinners?
What is because they abused spiritual authority and betrayed people’s faith?
Which pope does Dante speak to in Canto 19?
Who is Pope Nicholas III?
In Canto 19, the burning feet of the simoniacs are a twisted version of what Christian sacrament?
What is baptism?
Which canto features the most chaotic interactions between demons and sinners?
What is Canto 22?
Doré’s illustration of Canto 19 visually emphasizes what major theme?
What is the inversion/corruption of spiritual authority?
Across Cantos 19, 22, and 24, what common idea connects all three punishments?
What is abuse of trust/power through fraud and deception?