Symbolic Retubutions
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Canto 23 Content
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Because thievery is reptilian is its secrecy...
Therefore, it is punished by reptiles.
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Who was the 'man of blood and anger' in Circle 8 Bolgia 7 that stole holy relics from the church?
Vanni Fucci
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What do the Hypocrites have to do?
They have to very slowly walk around with heavy cloaks
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What happens when the reptiles coil tight enough around the sinners?
The sinners burst into ashes
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Displayed by Vanni Fucci, what was throwing your fist a symbol of?
Blasphemy
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The hands of the thieves are the agents of their crimes...
Therefore, they are bound forever.
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Who was the centaur who had violent brothers that stole from the herd of Hercules?
Cacus
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What does Vanni fortell?
The fall of the whites (Dante's group)
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How does Dante describe the shape of the predator and prey?
A newly-lit paper, which is just beginning to lose color
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As thieves, destroy fellow men by making their substance disappear...
So is he painfully destroyed and made to disappear, not once, but over and over again.
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Who is the the six-legged serpent that jumps onto a man and tears off his body limb-to-limb?
Ciafna
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What is Vanni Fucci's prophecy?
Pistoia will throw out the Blacks, but they will fight back with military forces from Val di Magra and deliver the Whites a smashing defeat
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When Ciafna rips apart a human, what happens?
The predator and the prey begin melding together, exchanging shape and color
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They have to walk around with a heavy cloak
Because they were light outside, but dark inside
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Who is the priest that is crucified because he planned to crucify Jesus alone?
Caiaphas
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What did the demons lie to Dante and Virgil about?
The broken bridge
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What circle does Dante think Fucci should be in?
Circle 5
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What is the ultimate outcome of the man and the serpent?
They exchanged forms, one becomes the other
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Who is the Jovial Friar that explains to Dante what has happened to Caiaphas?
Fra Catalano
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Explain the punishment of the sinners
The reptiles bind sinners hands with their bodies, and knot themselves around their thighs. After the serpents bite them, they turn into a pile of ash and re-form again.
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What is special about the third sinner, Puccio Sciancato?
He hasn't gone through the transformation
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