Dante's Divine Comedy Layers

For each part of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, name layer, sin, type of sin, terrace, or sphere given its name. They are listed in chronological orders with notable landmarks in gray. For the inner rounds of Layer 9, you may name either the name of the sin or the name of the region. For Paradiso name both the celestial body and the associated virtue or vice.

Nomenclature derived from the C.H. Grandgent's introduction of the Divine Comedy with Carlyle-Wicksteed Translation (illustrated by George Grosz) published by the Illustrated Modern Library

Information sourced from Wikipedia's Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso

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— Inferno —
Level	Circle	Subsection
Dark Woods
The Gate of Hell
Vestibule	Trimmers
Level 1	Limbo
Level 2	Carnality
Level 3	Gluttony
Level 4	Avarice
Level 5	Anger
Walls of Dis
Level 6	Heretics
Level 7 Ring i.	Violence	Against neighbor
Level 7 Ring ii.		Against self
Level 7 Ring iii.		Against God and nature
Level 8 Bolgia i.	Fraud or Malice – Malebolge	Seducers and panders
Level 8 Bolgia ii.		Flatterers
Level 8 Bolgia iii.		Simonists
Level 8 Bolgia iv.		Diviners
Level 8 Bolgia v.		Peculators
Level 8 Bolgia vi.		Hypocrites
Level 8 Bolgia vii.		Thieves
Level 8 Bolgia viii.		Evil counsellors
Level 8 Bolgia ix.		Sowers of dissension
Level 8 Bolgia x		Forgers
Giants' Well
Level 9 Round i	Treachery – Lake of Cocytus	Caina (against kin)
Level 9 Round ii		Antenora (against country)
Level 9 Round iii		Ptolomaea (against hospitality)
Level 9 Round iv		Judecca (against lords and benefactors)

— Purgatorio —
Terrace	Type of Sin	Sin
Shores of Purgatory
Ante-Purgatory	The Excommunicate
Ante-Purgatory	The Late-repentant
Terrace 1	Perverted Love	Pride
Terrace 2		Envy
Terrace 3		Anger
Terrace 4	Defective Love	Sloth
Terrace 5	Excessive Love	Avarice
Terrace 6		Gluttony
Terrace 7		Carnality
Summit of Purgatory	The Garden of Eden


— Paradiso —
Sphere	Layer	Virtue
Sphere of Fire
Sphere 1	Moon	Inconstancy
Sphere 2	Mercury	Ambition
Sphere 3	Venus	Earthly love
Sphere 4	Sun	Prudence
Sphere 5	Mars	Fortitude
Sphere 6	Jupiter	Justice
Sphere 7	Saturn	Temperance
Sphere 8	Stellar Heaven	Souls
Sphere 9	Primum Mobile	Angels
Sphere 10	Empyrean	God, His angels, and His Redeemend