The Circles--Dante’s the Inferno

Circle I: Neutrals and virtuous heathens

Circles II-VI (passion, excess, The She-Wolf)

Circle VII (the violent, The Lion)

Circles VIII-IX (fraudulent, calculated, premeditated, sneaky, The Leopard)

Circle VIII Malebolge--A series of ten pouches

Malebolge Pouch # and sin

I. panderers and seducers – profits from weaknesses of others

II. flatterers

III. simonists—buyers and sellers of church offices (spiritual power)

IV. diviners—fortune tellers

V. barrators—must like the simonists—buying and selling of church preferments -- favors

VI. hypocrites

VII. thieves

VIII. false counselors

IX. makers of discord

X. impersonators (liars, counterfeiters, Potiphar’s wife)