Examples Of Corruption In Dante Alighieri's Inferno

n Alighieri’s Inferno he highlights the fact that corruption frequently occurs amongst human beings due to incorrect reefing practices. Many of the sinners throughout Inferno were unable to read texts allegorically henceforth leading to corruption. The first example of poor reading practices would be in the case of Francesco and Pablo. Francesca’s cheated on her husband with his brother Pablo. She blames her infidelity, however, on the work of literature she was reading, Lancelot. She states ‘ The book and writer both Were love's purveyors” “Oft - times by that reading our eyes were drawn together, and the hue fled from our altered cheek….”. She explains that the romanticism in the text drew her and Pablo together causing them to commit