my canto- canto 13

In this canto, it is about the second ring of the seventh circle of hell! And it starts off with Virgil and Dante walking through the dark woods with and Dante hears cries from the woods but he is not sure where there coming from and he snaps a branch off the tree and blood comes from it so they were all turned to trees! Virgil tells Dante that the people who are being punished here are the ones who hurt themselves black trees and others such as suicidals and murderers! After this Virgil tells Dante to ask the tree what his story was and the tree told him his name and it was Pier Della Vigna an advisor to Emperor Fredrick but some courtiers blackened his name he took his own life. The trees got to their state of being a tree by just starting as saplings then they are pecked by Harpies which are half woman and bird and when there branch is broken off these trees/ people feel that main of losing a body part and when it is time for them to get their souls and body back they will not gain a full body! And when Dante was talking to the tree two men are running through the woods one of the mens names was Jacoma da Sant’Andrea and a dog has been chasing the two men and the dog catches up to them and shreds them to pieces. Then Dante and Virgil talk to the bush which is a soul and the bush talks about how bad Florence was and how much sadness was going on there ever since John the Baptist was its patron. This bush was a Florentine who hung himself so that’s why he was there!