gayism

literary scholars have argued the fact that Dante had homoerotic tendencies. This poin Many t has been justified with the help of Dante’s own work of art, the Inferno, a divine comedy where Dante goes down to visit the nine circles of hell. The sin of sodomy is seen in the seventh circle of hell, where sodomites, blasphemers and usurers are punished in three independent rings. Each sin has a different punishment associated towards …

…Because of his homoeroticism, Dante required himself to be compassionate and sympathetic towards the sodomites in the seventh circle of hell. Boswell, though, takes a mellow approach towards the same point that Pugh is trying to make: Dante’s definition and meaning of ‘sodomy.’ Works Cited Pugh, William White Tison. “Dante’s Poetics of corruption: Cantos XV and XVI of the Inferno.” Romance Notes 40 (1999): 3-11. Boswell, John E. “Dante and the Sodomites.” Dante Studies 112 (1994): 63-76.