Frauds-
They are constantly on fire appearing as nothing so much as living, speaking tongues of flame.
Divisiveness-
They are forced to walk around the circumference of the circle bearing horrible, disfiguring wounds inflicted on them by a great demon with a sword
Thank you for your attention!
Circle 9:
Falsification
Circle 10:
Divisiveness
Falsifiers-
It's divided into four subdivisions where specific classes of falsifiers (alchemists, impostors, counterfeiters, and liars) endure different degrees of punishment based on horrible, consumptive diseases such as rashes, dropsy, leprosy and consumption.
Circle 8:
Fraudulence
Falsification - To make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive
Fraudulence - Obtained, done by, or involving deception
Sinon the Falsifier
Divisiveness - Causing or tending to cause disagreement or dissension
Cacus the Angry Centaur
Circle 6:
Hypocrisy
Who can you find there?
- Seeks to punish Van Fucci
- He fraudlently stole Hercules' cattle
- He is a fire breathing monster with snakes covering his back
- He told the Trojans that he was a sacrifice of the Greeks for a safe voyage home
- He convinced them that the Greeks made the huge wooden horse to take place of the statue that Ulysses and Diomedes stole from Troy
- The Trojans believed him and brought the wooden horse into the walls of Troy not knowing the Greeks were inside it
- This then gave the Greeks the oppertunity to destroy Troy
Theft - the action or crime of stealing
Circle 7:
Theft
And one more thing...
Vanni Fucci the Theif
Hipocrisy - acting as though you have socially acceptable morals and beliefs when you don't
Politial Corruption-
Being thrown into a river of boiling pitch and tar
Circle 1:
Pimping and Seducing
Circle 3:
Simony
Hypocrits-
They wear heavy lead robes as they walk around the circumference of their circle. The robes are golden and resemble a monk’s cowl but are lined with heavy lead, symbolically representing hypocrisy
Circle 2:
Flattery
Conclusion
Thieves-
It's filled with serpents, dragons and other vengeful reptiles that torture the thieves endlessly. The bites of some of the snakes cause the thieves to spontaneously combust, only to regenerate their bodies for further torment in a few moments.
- Known as a man of "blood and anger"
- Admitted to stealing holy objects from a chapel in the Pistoian cathederal
- Almost let another man die for the crime he committed
- He gave up his accomplice who was killed so that he didn't get caught
If they ry to escape the pitch, a horde of demons armed with grappling hooks and barbs stands guard over them, ready to tear them to pieces
is here
- Pimping
- Seducing
- Flattery
- Simony
- Sorcery
- Political Corruption
- Hypocrit
What are their
punishments?
Flatterers-
disgustingly dipped in the
excrement of the
second ditch
Simonists-
They are turned upside down in large baptismal fonts cut into the rock, with their feet set ablaze by oily fires. The heat of the flames burns according to the guilt of the sinner
Pimps and Seducers-
whipped by horned demons
Sorcerers -
Their heads have been twisted around to face backwards, and they are forced to walk backwards around the circumference of their circle for all of eternity
Circle 8:
Fraud and Theft
What Are These Crimes?
Political Corruption - the use of legislated powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. Misuse of government power
Circle 5
Political Corruption
Pimping - when a person, especially a man, solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, usually in return for a share of the earnings;
Simony - the abuse of power within a church
Flattery - telling someone what they want to hear although it isn't nessesarily the truth
Seducing - to persuade or induce to have sexual intercourse; to win over or attract
Sorcery - the art, practices, or spells of a person who is supposed to exercise supernatural powers through the aid of evil spirits; black magic; witchery.
Circle 4
Sorcery