Dis (Divine Comedy)

Lower Hell, inside the walls of Dis, in an illustration by Stradanus. There is a drop from the sixth circle to the three rings of the seventh circle, then again to the ten rings of the eighth circle, and, at the bottom, to the icy ninth circle.

In Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, the City of Dis (Italian: Dite Italian pronunciation: [ˈdiːte]) encompasses the sixth through the ninth circles of Hell.[1]

Moated by the river Styx, the fortified city encloses the whole of Lower or Nether Hell.[2]

  1. ^ Inferno 9.106 to 34.81. Citations from The Divine Comedy, unless otherwise noted, are those of H. Wayne Storey, entry on "Dis", in The Dante Encyclopedia (Routledge, 2010), pp. 306–307.
  2. ^ Dante Hell (Penguin 1975) p. 318