Sins In Dante's Inferno

In the eyes of Dante Alighieri, there were many types of sins, and some were stronger than others. He believed that each sin had to be punished according to its level of strength of the offense towards God. In his poem, the Inferno, Dante includes three major levels of sin. One of these major sins is violence. Somebody once said that, “Life is difficult and then you die.” In the 7th circle located in the second inner circle one of the violent sins are those violent against themselves, which, as one can see in this quote are those who commit suicide.
Lower Hell is the City of Dis. In Inferno, Dis is mostly set aside for “intellectual sins rather than simple sins of passion” (Huse). “This place is where demons mob around” (Huse). In the Second
The tree-soul, Pier Della Vigne tells them that in life he was an advisor to Emperor Frederick, moral, admirable man. Then jealous groups of men in the court started blackening his name with lies. As a result of his named being blackened, the Emperor turned against him, which destroyed his reputation, and put him in prison. Pier Della Vigne was so ashamed and “unable to accept his wretched fate that he brutally took his life by either smashing his head against the wall or possibly by leaping from a high window just as the emperor was passing below the street” (Texas). Dante feels sorry for Pier Della Vigne, “And I: Do thou again inquire concerning what thou thinks’ will satisfy me; for I cannot, such pity is in my heart (XIII 82-84)" because Dante himself understands the importance of a good reputation. “Like Dante, Pier Della Vigne was an accomplished poet, part of the "Sicilian School" of poetry, he wrote sonnets and a victim of his own faithful service to the state” (Texas). The second resident that Virgil and Dante then speak to is a bush-soul that was a Florentine man in life who hanged himself. The bush-soul gives the readers some interesting information about the history of Florence while speaking to Virgil and Dante. He speaks about the suffering that has happened to Florence from being Christianized by turning their allegiance towards John the Baptist, and abandoning the god