All 7 Uses of
avarice
in
Dante's Inferno
- The Fourth Circle: the Avaricious and the Prodigal.†
Canto T.O. *
- Two men are just, but there they are not heeded; Pride, Envy, Avarice are the three sparks that have inflamed their hearts.†
Canto 4-6
- The Fourth Circle, that of the Avaricious and the Prodigal.†
Canto 7-9
- These were clerks who have no hairy covering on their head, and Popes and Cardinals, in whom avarice practices its excess.†
Canto 7-9
- Old report in the world calls them blind; it is a people avaricious, envious, and proud; from their customs take heed that thou keep thyself clean.†
Canto 13-15
- And not the only Bolognese do I weep here, nay, this place is so full of them, that so many tongues are not now taught between Savena and the Reno to say sipa; [2] and if of this thou wishest pledge or testimony, bring to mind our avaricious heart.†
Canto 16-18
- And were it not that reverence for the Supreme Keys that thou heldest in the glad life still forbiddeth me, I would use words still more grave; for your avarice saddens the world, trampling down the good and exalting the bad.†
Canto 19-21
Definition:
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(avarice) excessive desire for wealtheditor's notes: Like "greed", but implies greed specifically for money. The early Christian Church counted avarice as one of the "seven deadly sins."