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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 envisi ....

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.... 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 tombs, but he punishes them with their beliefs and lets them feel what it is like to die. This punishment by is one in which he was more focused on inflicting a physical pain rather than a mental one. Although h ....