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Inferno XX-XIV
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Undergraduate 1
03/25/2013

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Fourth Pouch punishment
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souls process in a line with their heads on backwards
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Types of sinners in the fourth pouch
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Diviners, magicians, astrologers, the sorceress Manto
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Mantua
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Virgil's hometown named after Manto simply because she lived and died there before it was inhabited, dismissing any blame someone may put on him for calling on these powers
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Fifth pouch punishment
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"Astounding darkness"; boiling tar; when a sinner comes up for breath a demon with claws pushes him back under
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Demons with claws
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Malabranche
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Head Malabranche
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Malacoda (evil tail)
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Why they need an escort
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The bridge is out
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When the bridge fell
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1266 years and 19 hours, or five hours later than the same time yesterday
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Who is in the fifth pouch
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Barterers
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Barterers they talk to and what he did
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Nava-rr-ese, took bribes when he served King Thibault
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Who/what stops Navarrese's conversation
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Tusked demon Ciri-atto rips into his body
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Who is in the sixth pouch
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Hypocrites
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Sixth pouch punishment
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Walking with cloaks, hats and cowls made of lead
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Who is in the middle and what's happening
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Cai-phus, high priest under Pontius Pilate is crucified and being trampled
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Seventh pouch punishment
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sinners running naked from snakes with snakes wrapped around their legs and hands; when caught the snake bites their neck, then they incinerate and start over
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Who is in seventh pouch (2)
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Thieves, Vanni Fucci who robbed a sacristy
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What Fucci tells Dante
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his political party the White Guelphs will be defeated at Pistoia
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