1. The Divine Comedy: Inferno By: Dante Alighieri Canto 32
PowerPoint By: Christy De Soto
MW-2pm

2. Canto 32 Details The ninth circle
First ring called- Caina: where people who betrayed their family are immersed in ice with their head bent down.
Second ring called- Antenora: where people who betrayed their homeland or party

3. Tales of the Way Things Were:
Dante can’t help but glare at the souls
floating by in the Danube River.
The souls could not open their eyes, because their eyelids were shut by ice.
The water resembles glass and is as cold as ice.
“The Danube where it flows in Austria, the Don beneath its frozen sky, have never made for their course so thick a veil in winter as there was here.” (pg.1933, 25)

4. Characters to Remember
Dante stepped on Bocca degli Abati’s (who betrayed his party at the battle of Montaperti) head not making him very happy.
The two sons of Count Alberto degli who killed each other over politics and their inheritance.
Sassol Mascheroni: A Florentine nobleman who murdered a relative.
Camiscion de’ Pazzi: a Florentine who killed his kinsman.
Beccheria: a Florence churchman executed for treason
Tebaldello: a citizen of Faenza who betrayed his town to its enemies.

5. More Characters…
Gianni de’ Solderanieri: a Florentine nobleman who switched political parties.
Ganelon: the betrayer of Roland in The Song of Roland.
Tydeus: mortally wounded by Menalippus, whom he killed and whose skull he gnawed in fury while dying.
Buoso de Duera: betrayed the ruler of Naples, Manfred, to his enemy Charles of Anjou.
Focaccia: a nobleman of Pistoia who killed his cousin.
Carlino: a Florentine nobleman who killed a relative.

7. Outline Slide 1: Intro Slide 2: Details
Slide 3: Description of the place
Slide 4: Characters
Slide 5: Characters continued
Slide 6: map of the Inferno