This week we are going to do a massive project in Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. I got canto XVI which describes Dante going through the third ring of the seventh circle of hell. Where the sodomites are. people who are violent towards nature. Which I suppose includes homosexuality and beastiality. Which are, of course, highly disputed topics. dante describes their punishment as fiery flakes raining down on hot sand where sodomites were forced to walk lest they be punished.
Dante first recognizes three florentines, all three of them renowned for their skill in battle. They had their hands joined to form a wheel. Dante wanted to go down with them and embrace them. But he didn't for fear of the pain and heat of the boiling hot sand and flakes.
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