Status Updates From Commedia. Inferno

Chapter 8: a boatman takes them through thebriver even though he's dissappointed becaise he thought he found someone dead again. They arrive at the gate of Dis (metropole of hell) but the fallen angels don't let dante in cuz he's alive and Virgil doesn't leave him there. They ask for help from heaven through a messenger.

Chapter7: the 4th circle, the people are constantly pushing heavy materials in a circle and when they come to the middle they shout insults. Their sin was materialism. In the 5th circle the sin is anger. Those with active anger are trying to survive in the river of stix and are suffering, those with passive anger are drowning at the bottom choking on the dirty mud trying to sing a hymn.

Chapter 6: in cicle 3 the sin is gluttony a dog guarding them has a huge stomach representing gluttony. Dante meets a Florentian just like him but doesn't recognize him until the guy tells him they have met. We get to know why dante disliked pope boniface bc there was a fight between the guelphs and another family but after defeating them there were black and white guelphs. Dante was a white and the pope a black.

Chapter 5: After virgil defeats minos the poets enter the second circle and meet people like Cleopatra and Achilles, Helen and Dido. These people's sin is a huge sexual interest and pleasure but Dante says it's only the second circle because their sin is from a formnof loce so it is not so bad. They suffer from a hurricane blowing them all the time.