Themes

Sin the punishment that shows the sin instead of punishing it from outside, like the tempest that carries the lustful (canto V), the order of the circles that Virgil draws (canto XI), the soothsayers with twisted heads (canto XX), the lead cloaks of the... Justice and Law the gate that says it was made by justice, by power, by wisdom, and by love (canto III), the formula "it is so willed there where what one wants can be done," said to Charon and repeated to Minos (canto V), Fortune as the minister set by God (canto VII), the... Desire the she-wolf that is never sated (canto I), the appetite that overcomes reason in Francesca (canto V), the gluttonous of Cerberus and Ciacco (canto VI), the avaricious and the prodigal without measure (canto VII), Dante's pleasure in seeing Argenti sunk... Politics Ciacco's prophecy about Florence (canto VI), the Ghibelline chief Farinata (canto X), the ingratitude of Florence that Brunetto announces (canto XV), the simoniac popes (canto XIX), the defeat of the Whites that Vanni Fucci predicts (canto XXIV), Guido's... Knowledge and Wisdom the Limbo of the poets and philosophers (canto IV), the doctrine hidden beneath the veil of the verses (canto IX), the lesson of Aristotle's Ethics (canto XI), the soothsayers who wanted to see too far ahead (canto XX), and the "virtue and knowledge" of... Loyalty and Betrayal the fraudulent counsel of Guido (Canto XXVII), the father and son whom Bertran de Born divided (Canto XXVIII), the traitors to kin in Caina and the traitors to country in Antenora (Canto XXXII), Ugolino and Archbishop Ruggieri, and Fra Alberigo (Canto... Honor and Reputation the Ignavi, whom the world leaves without fame (Canto III), Farinata, greater in Hell than he was in life (Canto X), Pier delle Vigne and the memory he wants to defend (Canto XIII), Brunetto and the man who makes himself eternal through his work (Canto XV),...