John DeLeonardis’s Reviews > The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso > Status Update

My gosh, Dante was a genius.

“After each mutilation the souls are compelled to drag their broken bodies around the pit and to return to the demon, for in the course of the circuit their wounds knit in time to be inflicted anew. Thus the law of retribution observed, each sinner suffering according to his degree.”