The eighth circle houses the people who are fraudulent. Dante and Virgil reach the eight circle on the back of Geryon, a flying beast with various natures. Dante comes face to face with Pope Boniface VIII, his enemy. Boniface's possible predetermination is uncovered to Dante by Pope Nicholas III, whom he also meets. Painting Hell. Depicted on the canvas are the events of canto eight of Dante’s Inferno. Dante along with his guide, the Roman poet Virgil, are crossing the river Styx. As their boat crosses the water the tormented souls that inhabit it are attacking them. Dante loses his balance, but Virgil steadies him. Dante's Inferno Summary. Inferno is a fourteenth-century epic poem by Dante Alighieri in which the poet and pilgrim Dante embarks on a spiritual journey. At the poem’s beginning, Dante is lost Analysis. Dante and Virgil arrive at the gate of hell. Above the gate, there is an inscription on the lintel. The inscription says that this is the way to the city of desolation and eternal sorrow. It says that God, moved by justice, made the gate and tells all those who pass through it to abandon all hope. Virgil comforts the scared Dante and Analysis. Dante and Virgil descend to the second circle of hell, where there is more suffering and screaming. Dante sees the monstrous Minos, the judge of the underworld in Greek mythology, judging and sentencing souls. When souls come before him, they can't help but confess all their sins. Summary: Canto XVIII. Virgil and Dante find themselves outside the Eighth Circle of Hell, known as Malebolge (“Evil Pouches”). Dante describes the relationship between the circle’s structure and its name: the circle has a wall running along the outside and features a great circular pit at its center; ten evenly spaced ridges run between The last 15 years of Corot's life were his most critically and commercially successful. Turning his attention to literary motifs, he produced a number of large-scale figural compositions, such as Macbeth (1858-59) and Dante and Virgil (1859), earning him the reputation of a 'poet', his paintings described as "reveries" and "musings on nature Dante and Virgil enter the third ring of the seventh circle, the place of hell designated for Blasphemers against God. Here the blasphemers are subjected to a burning rain, which heats up the sand Virgil pushes Filippo Argenti back into the River Styx. This illustration depicts a disturbing moment from Canto 8 when Dante and Virgil encounter one of the sinners they despise the most. Wandering around the Fifth Circle of Hell, Virgil and Dante meet the boatman Phlegyas, who takes them across the Styx at Virgil’s request. After slipping by the Minotaur, Dante and Virgil visit the three areas of circle seven, where the violent shades are punished. Astride the Centaur Nessus, Dante views those who committed violent acts against fellow human beings, from ruthless tyrants and warriors (such as Attila the Hun) to murderers and highway bandits, all submerged to an zUEACvh.