Dantes Third Circle of Hell EssayIn Dantes The Inferno, the third circle of Hell is reserved for the gluttonous. After awaking from a faint, Dante soon finds himself in the third circle surrounded by the foul slush. He tells about the black snow falling into the dirty water. Dante also tells of the stinking dirt that festered there. In this circle lives the three-headed monster Cerberus, ripping and tearing at the sinners as they lie in the sludge. The only soul named in this circle is Ciacco, nicknamed The Hog. Ciacco was a resident of Florence who was a glutton. He tells Dante that for his offense he lies rotting like a swollen log, doomed to wallow in the mire and smell the wretched stench for all eternity. Dante, aghast at the putrid-smelling slop, tells Ciacco that the sinners agony weighs on my heart and calls my soul to tears.Although he pities Ciaccos condition, he does not hesitate to ask him for information concerning Florence, and it is Ciacco who gives Dante the first political prophecy of The Inferno.
