Oct 7, 2008

Dante's Inferno | Canto 29 Summary and Analysis

New Characters
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...