Dante's Inferno | Canto 29 Summary and Analysis
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Falsifiers: Punished in the Ninth Trench; victims of disease and illness
Capocchio: Student with Dante; an alchemist who called self an “ape of nature” because of his power to mimic or to produce a draught
Aretine: Griffolino d’Arezza; a physicist; took money for promising miracles; burned at stake for falsifying
Summary
Dante spends some time watching the people in the Ninth Bowge because he expects to see one of his kinsman, Geri del Bello; Virgil urges Dante to continue the trip immediately and think of other things. Virgil indicates that he...
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