6th Circle
Types of sins: heresy (denial of the soul's immortality)
Types of punishments: shades are eternally crammed into fiery tombs with other shades and the bottoms of their feet being burned off
Who is there: Farinata degli Uberti- a leader of Florence. In Hell because he belonged to a political party that wanted to limit the power of the church.
7th Circle
Types of sins: violence against people and property (outer ring), violence against self/suicide (middle ring), violence agains God/nature (inner ring)
Types of punishments: (outer ring) immersed in a river of boiling blood with centaurs shooting arrows at the shades if they try to escape. (middle ring) transformed into gnarly, thorny trees with their own bodies hanging from the branches and the Harpies feeding off of them. People who destroy their lives by destroying their means to sustain life, like money and property, are chased by ferocious dogs through the thorny trees and bushes. (inner ring) desert of flaming sand with fiery flakes falling from the sky onto their naked bodies and the tears being forced out of their eyes.
Who is there: Pyrrhus- son of Achilles. In this level for killing King Priam of Troy.
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