Part one of term paper
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 broken down into two types. The first type he borr ...

Part two of term paper
... suffering. However, it is possible for the creative punishments to inflict both a mental and physical pain upon the sinner. Several punishments that envisions for the various sinners are borrowed from forms of torture. The first physical punishment borrows from that is his punishment for the heretics. The 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 ...