... the beginning of The Inferno of Dante, by Robert Pinsky, Dante builds a great deal of tension between the objective of God's justice, and Dante's human sympathy for the souls that he sees around him. As the story progresses, however, the character becomes less and less inclined toward pity, and repeated comments by Virgil encourage this ... husbands brother Paolo da Rimini, in turn both wound up in The Second Circle of Hell. Both are condemned to a spinning torment. On his way, Dante reaches the Third Circle of Hell, only to see that these souls must lie in the mud. Torrential rains of f...

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