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20 Cards in this Set
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Virgil |
Circle 1, Limbo. Born before Christ. |
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3 Beasts |
Before hell. Guard the Mt. of Purgatory. |
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Beatrice |
Dante's love. Heavenly force. |
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Charon |
Ferryman of the river Archeron. |
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Minos |
2nd Circle, Lustful. Decides where sinners go. King of Crete. |
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DIdo |
2nd Circle, Lustful. Suicide due to Aeneas leaving. Of Virgil's Aeneid. |
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The Sybil |
Of Virgil's Aeneid. Prophecy to Aeneas. |
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Tireseas |
Theban prophet. Inhabits the underworld in Homer's Odyssey. Shows Odysseus how to get back to Ithaca and communicate with dead souls. |
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Farinata delga Uberti |
6th Circle, Heretics. Believed that the soul died with the body. |
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Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti |
6th Circle, Heretics. Next to Farinata. Father of Guido. Married his son to Farinata's daughter, possibly an atheist. |
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Guido Cavalcanti |
Italian poet and troubadour. Alive during the pilgrim's journey. |
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Pier della Vigna |
7th Circle, Violent. Wood of Suicide. Former adviser to Fredrick II. Committed suicide by bashing his head. |
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Brunetto Latini |
7th Circle, Violent against God. Sodomy. Guardian to Dante in life. |
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Geryon |
Massive flying creature. Chrimeric beast. Flies Dante and Virgil to the 8th circle. |
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Simon Magus |
Sin of Simony, paying for a position or influence in the Catholic church. |
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Pope Boniface |
Currently alive at the time of the pilgrim's journey. Will exile Dante, eventually. |
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Pope Nicholas III |
8th Circle (Fraud), Simony. Mistakes Dante for Boniface. |
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Ulysses |
8th Circle (Fraud). Paired with Diomedes. Trojan horse. |
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Guido da Montefeltro |
8th Circle, Fraud. Given a preemptive absolve (by Boniface) for committing a sin |
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Ugolino (and Ruggieri) |
9th Circle, Betrayers. Ugolino was driven to eat his children's corpses after they died of starvation. Locked in a tower by Ruggieri. He eats Ruggieri's head for eternity in hell. |
