Canto XX
What type of sinner resides in the 4th Bolgia of the eighth circle?
What are Fortune Tellers and Diviners?
How does Dante describe what the environment is like in the fifth bolgia?
What is Dark and Desolate?
How many Italians does the soul say he can bring up if the devil stops ripping his body apart?
What is 7?
Name of the Shades found in the 6th Bolgia?
Name the punishment given to the sinners in the 4th Bolgia of the eighth circle.
What is Walking for eternity with their heads twisted backwards and tears in their eyes?
What is the punishment to the grafters in this canto?
What is Being trapped in sticky, boiling pitch guarded by demons with claws and grappling hooks to prevent them from getting out?
What is Dante's reaction to seeing a troop of devils walking along with him?
What is Dante being surprised by something so strange?
Why are the shades slowed down?
What is Being weighed down by the lead in their cloaks?
Why is Tiresias being punished in this section?
What is Being transformed into a woman?
What is the name of the leader of the Malabranche (demons) who Virgil tries to reason with?
Who is Malacoda?
What are the grafter's reactions as they see the devils?
What is the grafter's quickly returning deep back into the pitch?
How do the hypocrites recognize that Dante is alive?
What is Recognizing that his throat moves when he speaks?
Dante notices many recognizable faces in this canto. Name at least 3 people Dante sees being punished in this section.
Who is Tiresias, Amphiareus, Aruns, Manto, Euryplus, Michael Scot, Guido Bonatti, Asdente?
How did the bridge above the 6th bolgia fall?
What was Jesus' death? (Crucifiction)
What does the comparison of the military troops to the devil troops represent?
What is the radical difference between hell and the living world?
Who is the man being walked over by these souls and what reason has he been given this punishment?
Who is Caiaphas, and telling the council of Pharisees that it was better for Jesus to die than the whole nation?
Who is Michael Scot and why is he being punished here?
What is a Scottish scholar/tutor to the pope, who was rumored to be a wizard due to his interest in Eastern/Arab literature. (mastery of magic fraud)
A city is mentioned when a demon throws a senator from it into the pitch. What is the name of the city?
What is Lucca, Italy?
What are the devil's reactions to losing the soul and allowing it to escape back into the pitch?
What is Becoming angry and frustrated and blaming each other for the mistake?
How are the demons able to catch up with Dante and Virgil?
What is by flying with wings to catch up to them?