Chapter 32 of 147

Outhne: Inferno Xiv

OUTHNE: INFERNO XIV

1–3

retrospect: the Florentine suicide

4–6

the border separating the second and third rings

7–15

the hellscape of violence against God: barren sand

16–18

apostrophe: God’s just vengeance

19–27

three classes of sins punished in the third ring

28–30

the hellscape: flakes of fire

31–39

simile: flames from sky on Alexander’s army in India

40–42

the hands of the sinners in their eternal “dance”

43–48

Dante’s impertinent question to Virgil

49–60

Capaneus’s monologue

61–66

Virgil’s rebuke of Capaneus

67–72

Virgil’s “commentary” to Dante

73–75

marker of separation between two halves of canto

76–78

the river of blood

79–81

simile: the river Bulicame

82–84

the stone margins of the river will afford them passage

85–90

Virgil stresses the importance of this river

91–93

Dante’s heightened curiosity

94–111

Virgil on the Old Man of Crete:

94–102

Mount Ida, paradisal past and deserted present

103–111

the old man within the mountain

112–120

tears of the veglio form the four rivers of hell

121–129

the stream: Dante’s question and Virgil’s answer

130–138

Phlegethon and Lethe: Dante’s questions answered

139–142

coda: Virgil’s advice that Dante stick to the path

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