The Great Structure of The Divine Comedy
The structure of Dante's Divine Comedy can be divided into 10 parts: 3 sections for each portion of the after life with an additional one for paradise:
Inferno
Vestibule
- The Negligent
- Limbo
Upper Hell
2. Lustful
3. Gluttony
4. Avarice and Prodigality
5. Anger
6. Heresy
- [Great Barrier/ Waterfall]
Lower Hell
7. Violence
- against Neighbors
- against Self
- against Nature
- against God
8. Malebolge [The Giants]
9. The Lowest Level
Purgatory
Ante-Purgatory
- Excommunicated
- Negligent
Purgatory Proper
2. The Proud
3. The Envious
4. The Wrathful
5. The Slothful
6. The Covetous
7. The Gluttonous
8. The Lustful
Eden
9. Earthly Paradise
Paradise
Shadow of the Moon
1. Moon - Inconstant
2. Mercury - Ambitious
No Shadow
3. Venus -- Lovers
4. Sun -- Teachers
5. Mars -- Warriors
6. Jupiter -- Rulers
7. Saturn -- Contemplatives
Fixed Star
8. Prime Mobile
Empyrean/ Eternal Realm
9/10 The Celestial Rose
