Outhne: Inferno Xviii

Malebolge as castle: wall, moats, bridges, pit

similes: moats around castles and overarching bridges

leftward movement after Geryon has departed

first ditch: double file of sinners

simile: bridge in Rome over Tiber during Jubilee Year

the punishing demons with their whips

Dante recognizes Venedico Caccianemico

Venedico’s pandering and that of other Bolognesi

a demon smites him and sends him off

Dante and Virgil mount to the crown of the ridge

Virgil: now Dante can watch the other group of sinners

view of the seducers: Jason

the second ditch: sound of whining, stench

to see within, they mount to the ridge’s crown

flattery: Alessio Interminei of Lucca

flattery: Thaïs the whore; abrupt ending of canto