| First day | Second day | Third day | Fourth day | Fifth day | Sixth day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| light | firmament | seas, dry land, plants | sun, moon, stars | animals in the water and in the air | animals living on land, and man |
| light | fabrica mundi | creatures moving in this universe | |||
| undetermined | superior part | inferior part | superior part | inferior part | inferior part |
| First age | Second age | Third age | Fourth age | Fifth age | Sixth age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam | Noah | Abraham | David | Babylon | Christ |
| ante legem | sub lege | sub gratia | |||
| Bastavasi ne' secoli recenti / con l'innocenza, per aver salute, / solamente la fede d'i parenti; / poi che le prime etadi fuor compiute | convenne ai maschi a l'innocenti penne / per circuncidere acquistar virtute; | ma poi che 'l tempo de la grazia venne, / sanza battesmo perfetto di Cristo / tale innocenza lą gił si ritenne. | |||
| First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wounded contrahents of the "Troiani" (probably Turnus and his followers opposing Aeneas) | wounded at the Roman defeat at Cannae (i.e. principally Romans) | contrahents of Robert Guiscard | wounded at Manfred's defeat at Ceprano | wounded at Konradin's defeat at Tagliacozzo | 'il modo sozzo della nona bolgia' (i.e. the damned wounded in Hell) |
| Pre-Christian aera | Christian aera | all times (eternity) | |||
| Mohammed | Pier da Medicina | Mosca | Bertran | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description of the bolgia | Prophecy about Fra Dolcino | Prophecy about Malatestino | Presentation of Curio's past | Presentation of Mosca's past | Presentation of Bertran's past |
| Present (eternity) | Future | Past | |||
| (Ali) | Mohammed | Pier | Curio | Mosca | Bertran |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| split from the chin upwards to the tuft | split from the chin down to the anus, with the viscera flowing from this wound | throat perforated, nose and one ear truncated (and absent) | tongue cut off from its root in the throat (loss of speech) | both hands truncated (and absent) | head severed from the trunk (but still present) |
| vertically split | not split (3+1+2 wounds) | horizontally split | |||
| religious discord | political discord | familial discord | |||
| Arabia (Holy Land) | Italy (with Rome at the center) | South France | |||
| Asia | Europe | (died in) Africa | Europe | ||
| Circumcision | Baptism | Polytheism | Baptism | ||
| 7th century | late 13th century | Pre-Christian | early 13th century | late 12th century | |
| (Ali) | Mohammed | Pier | Curio | Mosca | Bertran |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| weeps with his cleft face | opens his breast with his hands | opens his perforated and blood-stained throat | Pier puts his hand on Curios jaw and opens his mouth | raises his bleeding armstumps and covers his face with blood | raises the severed head in his hand high toward the little bridg |
| (mimic?) | opening ("aperse", "aprì", "aperse") | elevation ("levò", "levando") | |||
| (mimic?) | manual gesture | exhibited as bleeding | manual gesture | exhibited as bleeding | manual gesture |
| 1. | Italian resistance against the "Troiani" (probably Turnus vs. Aeneas) | Pre-Christian era | one of four | contemporary with no. 14 |
| 2. | Roman defeat at Cannae | Pre-Christian era | one of four | later revenged by Scipio in the "fortunata valle of Zama", see no. 11 |
| 3. | Resistance against Robert Guiscard | Christian era | one of seven | |
| 4. | Manfred's defeat at Ceprano | Christian era | one of seven | |
| 5. | Konradin's defeat at Tagliacozzo | Christian era | one of seven | |
| 6. | Mohammed founder of Islam | Christian era | one of seven | |
| 7. | Ali follower of Mohammed, founder of Schiitic sect | Christian era | one of seven | |
| 8. | Dolcino's conflict with the Church | Future | one of two | |
| 9. | Pier da Medicina instigating discord | Dante personally involved? | singular case | |
| 10. | Guido and Angiolillo murdered by Malatestino | Future | one of two | |
| 11. | Curio's crime, Roman Civil War | Pre-Christian era | one of four | Curio was defeated and killed in the "fortunata valla" of Zama, where he had hoped to repaet Scipio's victory, see no. 2 |
| 12. | Mosca's crime, Florentine Civil War | Christian era | one of seven | |
| 13. | Bertran de Born instigating Young Henry against Henry II | Christian era | one of seven | |
| 14. | Achitophel instigating Absalom against David | Pre-Christian era | one of four | contemporary with no. 1 |
| Poem | verses | letters in each verse | grouping: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 47 | 39 | one of four |
| 2. | 35 | 35 | one of seven |
| 3. | 36 | 37 | one of fourteen |
| 4. | 37 | 37 | one of fourteen |
| 5. | 35 | 35 | one of seven |
| 6. | 37 | 37 | one of fourteen |
| 7. | 35 | 35 | one of seven |
| 8. | 37 | 37 | one of fourteen |
| 9. | 41 | 41 | singular case |
| 10. | 37 | 37 | one of fourteen |
| 11. | 36 | 36 | one of two |
| 12. | 35 | 35 | one of seven |
| 13. | 35 | 35 | one of seven |
| 14. | 39 | 39 | one of four |
| 15. | 36 | 36 | one of two |
| 16. | 34? | 37 | one of fourteen |
| 17. | 39 | 39 | one of four |
| 18. | 37 | 37 | one of fourteen |
| 19. | 37 | 37 | one of fourteen |
| 20. | 37 | 37 | one of fourteen |
| 21. | 37 | 37 | one of fourteen |
| 22. | 41 | 39 | one of four |
| 23. | 37 | 37 | one of fourteen |
| 24. | 37 | 37 | one of fourteen |
| 25. | 37 | 37 | one of fourteen |
| 26. | 37 | 37 | one of fourteen |
| 27. | 35 | 35 | one of seven |
| 28. | 43 | 35 | one of seven |