Dante

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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 he uses various torturous practices in The Inferno in order to inflict physical agony, does, sometimes, use famous acts of cruelty to punish the sinners. One such punishment is that which borrows from Emperor Frederick II. Frederick II was well known for his lead capes with which he punished criminals. places all of the hypocrites in “gilded” cloaks that “dazzled; but inside they were all of lead, so heavy that Frederick’s capes were straw compared to them.” uses this analogy to Frederick to demonstrate the extent ...

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