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Judas Iscariot

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betrayed Jesus, Ninth Circle, treacherous against their masters, ripped by Satans teeth

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Casiuss

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betrayed Caesar, Ninth Circle, treacherous against their masters, ripped by Satans teeth

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Virgil

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Limbo, the symbol of Human reason, represents the highest level a human can reach without

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Beatrice

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Symbol of Divine Love, sent Virgil to lead virgil from error

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Pope Celestine V

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vestibule of hell Pope that gave up his position, led to Boniface assuming the papal position

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Homer

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Limbo, virtuous pagan, great poet

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Cleopatra

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Cleopatra - Circle Two, she was lustful and her lover was Marc Antony

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Helen

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cause of the trojan war Circle 2

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Paolo

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circle 2, had affair with his brothers wife

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Filippi Argenti

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Circle 5, wrathful, bitter political enemy of Dante

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Farinata Degli Uberti

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Circle Six, expelled Guelphs from Florence and declared a heretic after death

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Pope anastasius

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Circle Six, excused a guy who denied the Divine paternity of Christ

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Alexander the Great

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Circle Seven: Round 1, blood thristy tyrants of Sicily

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Attila

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Circle Seven: Round 1, he killed a bunch of people, “Scourge of God”

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Ser Brunetto Latino

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Circle Seven: Round 3, he was a gay, good friend of Dante’s

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Jason

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Circle Eight: Bolgia 1, seduced a woman & got her pregnant then left

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Pope Nicholas III

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Circle Eight: Bolgia 3, sold Church favors and offices

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Simon Magus

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Circle Eight: Bolgia 4, tried to buy power to administer the Holy Ghost

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Capaneus

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seventh Circle (third round) thought he was better than Zeus .. struck by lightning

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Pier Delle Vigne

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poet who killed himself

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jacomo de sant andrea

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famed destroyers of their own wealth

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aruns

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a local boy from Dante’s region, this Etruscan seer prophesied the Roman Civil War that ended in Julius Caesar’s victory over Pompey the Great, setting the stage for the creation of the Roman Empire

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ulysses

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placed in the 8th circle of Inferno because he lived by pillage and fraud

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betrand de born

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Bertrand is one of the hideous sowers of discord in circle 8, ditch 9

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