Dec 19, 2009

Dante's Inferno | Canto 14 Summary and Analysis

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Blasphemers: Includes Capaneus, one of seven kings in siege of Thebes

Summary
Dante gathers the scattered leaves and places them about the tree to whom he is speaking; Dante and Virgil continue their journey.

They next find themselves in a desert pelted by a rain of fire; Dante speculates that Cato once marched here. They find the blasphemers. Virgil speaks with anger to Capaneus and compares his hot rage to the hot sands. The two travelers see a brook whose...