Inferno Pier Delle Vigne and Guido Da Montefeltro

Inferno: Pier delle Vigne and Guido da Montefeltro In his poem, Inferno, Dante Alighieri meets the damned souls in hell. His mentor, Virgil, a well-known poet and a good friend of Dante’s, guides him through out their journey of hell and encourages him to farther question those souls damned in hell. Virgil also explains the structure of hell, how it is divided into circles and each circle is the place where those guilty of certain sins are being punished. Through out the poem, the souls that Virgil and Dante encounter, all try to justify their sin and they indirectly ask for pity. Here is where Dante the poem leaves the decision up to the reader, whether or not the punishment fits the sinner and the sin and whether or not they deserve†¦show more content†¦Dante feels sorry for him, because he too understands the importance of a good reputation. When telling his story, Pier tries to justify his suicide by playing the victim, explaining the fact that he was innocent and that he did not do anything to hurt others. The r eader can argue, regardless of what the envious group did to Pier, he still denied a gift from God, life. Once Virgil and Dante finished talking to Pier, they went ahead with their journey to later find themselves on the edge of a cliff with a waterfall. This cliff and waterfall are the transition between violence and the eighth circle, the circle of fraud, or also referred to as the Malebolge, â€Å"Malebolge is translated as an evil ditch or evil sewer† (Brand, Lecture Canto XXVII). Dante the poem describes the place as very stinky. Dante’s descriptions of the Malebolge are filled with symbolisms of fraud. The Malebolge is the sewer system of human society and it is â€Å"stinky because of all the sins and corruption humans are guilty of† (Brand, Lecture Canto XXVII), this represents the reality of fraud. Fraud is the corruption of human society, fraud is â€Å"stinky†, and it is also the â€Å"byproducts of humans† (Brand, Lecture Canto XXVII). In the Malebolge we find ten bolgias that represent the different kinds of fraud; each bolgia is worst tha n the previews one. In these bolgias is where find souls guilty of seduction, flattery, thieves, false counselors, to falsifiers, and alchemists. In the eighth