Canto 32

Virgil and Dante enter at ninth circle next to Cocytus. First, they get to Caina, which is the area that all traitors to kindred are punished. Those sinners were frozen in the lake with the upper body revealed to Dante. There, Dante saw a brother bonded with each other and cannot separate, Sassol Mascheroni who committed sin of murdering his uncle's only son for inheritance, and Camiscion de' Pazzi who killed a kinsman. Then, they went to Antenora, the area all traitors to country or party are punished. All the sinners were punished in the frozen lake with only head up. Dante accidentally kicked one's face and got that sinner mad. Dante asked who he was and he was unwilling to tell him. The other sinner called Buoso Donati shouted to Dante that this man was Bocca del Duca, who betrayed his country for good. Bocca told Dante that Buoso was also a traitor to his country for money. He also told Dante Beccheria and Gianni de' Soldanier were next to them too. Then, Dante and Virgil saw two frozen in one hole so that one head was a hat to the other. Those are Ugolino and Archibishop Ruggieri. Dante told them to reveal their sins and tried to see if he can pardon them.

At the beginning of this canto, Dante told the readers that hell is not like a child-play and also he can hardly describe how bad it is in hell by using words. In line 37, the sinner held his face turned down, expressing the shame of him. In line 58, it is ironic to say that "from one body they were born" because the brothers ended up to kill each other just for inheritance. In line 58, I realized that Caina was actually named for Cain. Who killed his brother Abel of envy and was exiled , branded with a mark to prevent anyone from killing him. This is a representative figure to the Caina area as whole because this area confined those who are traitors to their kindreds. In 113-23, it stated that" do not be silent...when it slept". It is ironic because Bocca , whose name means "mouth" is betrayed by another of the traitors. Bocca, simply a name that symbolizes the talkative figure, reveals five other sinners' identities to Dante after himself was recognized by Dante. We see how sinful as he was!