Total Lines in Dante's Commedia

Total Lines in Dante's
Inferno, Purgatorio, & Paradiso

Edited by Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

for Professor John Freccero's
Dante's Paradiso class
Stanford University, Spring 2001

Inferno

Purgatorio

Paradiso

Canto	Total Lines	Sum
1	136	1
2	278	8
3	414	9
4	565	7
5	707	5
6	822	3
7	952	7
8	1082	2
9	1215	9
10	1351	1
11	1466	8
12	1605	3
13	1756	1
14	1898	8
15	2022	6
16	2158	7
17	2294	8
18	2430	9
19	2563	7
20	2693	2
21	2832	6
22	2983	4
23	3131	9
24	3282	6
25	3433	4
26	3575	2
27	3711	3
28	3853	1
29	3992	5
30	4140	9
31	4285	1
32	4424	5
33	4581	9
34	4720	4
Total:	4720	4

Canto	Total Lines	Sum
1	136	1
2	269	8
3	414	9
4	553	4
5	689	5
6	840	3
7	976	4
8	1115	8
9	1260	9
10	1399	4
11	1541	2
12	1677	3
13	1831	4
14	1982	2
15	2127	3
16	2272	4
17	2411	8
18	2556	9
19	2701	1
20	2852	8
21	2988	9
22	3142	1
23	3275	8
24	3429	9
25	3568	4
26	3716	8
27	3858	6
28	4006	1
29	4160	2
30	4305	3
31	4450	4
32	4610	2
33	4755	3

Total:	4755	3

Canto	Total Lines	Sum
1	142	7
2	290	2
3	420	6
4	562	4
5	701	8
6	843	6
7	991	1
8	1139	5
9	1281	3
10	1429	7
11	1568	2
12	1713	3
13	1855	1
14	1994	5
15	2142	9
16	2296	1
17	2438	8
18	2574	9
19	2722	4
20	2870	8
21	3012	6
22	3166	7
23	3305	2
24	3459	3
25	3598	7
26	3740	5
27	3888	9
28	4027	4
29	4172	5
30	4320	9
31	4462	7
32	4613	5
33	4758	6

Total:	4758	6

Total lines in Dante's Commedia = 14,233 = 1+4+2+3+3 = 13 = 1 + 3 = 4

Sum = addition of numbers in lines (e.g. 278 = 2 + 7 + 8 = 17 = 1 + 7 = 8)

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