The Pardoner And Dante's Eight Circle

Chaucer’s The Pardoner would fit best in Dante’s eighth circle. This is known as the fraud circle. This circle is also broken down into ten different Bolgias. The Pardoner would fall under Bolgia three. Bolgia three is committing the sin of Simony. One commits simony when they sell ecclesiastic favors and offices, to make money for themselves out of what rightfully belongs to God. People would come to the church to repent of their sins, and often would give charitable donations. However, the pardoner began to pock people’s donations. So, before people would just give money out of charity, but then it became required to pay. Basically people were paying to have their sins repented, but instead of the money going to the Church they were going