1. Punishment in Dante's Inferno
... Dante's Inferno, God punishes sinners in a unique way so that the crimes they commit on earth reflect the punishment they face while in Hell; which is a contrapasso. One example of a contrapasso is in canto thirteen, where sinners who commit suicide are in a form of a tree watching their bodies hang down from the branches. Another example is in Canto 20 where Dante ... and God and the location is in the second division out of the three in the seventh circle. At the beginning of canto thirteen, Dante gives a description of circle seven and he says that there are"no green leaves, but those...
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