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Show Notes
Translation: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Canto I: The Dark Forest. The Hill of Difficulty. The Panther, the Lion, and the Wolf. Virgil.
Canto II: The Descent. Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal. The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight.
Canto III: The Gate of Hell. The Inefficient or Indifferent. Pope Celestine V ("Who made the great refusal"). The Shores of Acheron. Charon. The Earthquake and the Swoon.
Canto IV: The First Circle, Limbo: Virtuous Pagans and the Un- baptized. The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. The Noble Castle of Philosophy -Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, etc.