... tears. In life, these individuals were twin counts of Mangona, but they killed one another in a fight over their inheritance, so in death they are fittingly denied any warmth or human love, just as they denied it to each other in life. However, this denial of compassion is all the more torturous because they did not deny it to just strangers ... the worst crime imaginable as "Each is aggressor and victim as they merge into a monstrous, bipartite unity".2 From this quote we can get a closer look at truly awful nature of the crime these two brothers committed, and why Dante is so unforgiv...

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