Dante
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In ’s Inferno, narrates his descent and observation of hell through the various circles and pouches. One part of this depiction is his descriptions of the various punishments that each of the different sinners has received.
The various punishments that envisions the sinners receiving are broke ....
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.... penalty in the medieval era for heresy was often public humiliation or to burn to death. For , to be a heretic was to follow one’s own opinion and not the beliefs of the Christian Church. ’s punishment for the “arch heretics and those who followed them” was that they be “ensepulchered” and to have some tombs “heated more, some less.” Since the archheretics believed that everything died with the body and that there was no soul, not only punishes them with the hot and crowded tom ....
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