Hungering for What is Just: A Brief Comparison of the Gluttonous in Dante’s Inferno &Purgatorio
An often-overlooked sin in the modern church, gluttony is one of the seven capital sins according to Christian medieval theology. In his renowned work, The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri describes the punishments the gluttonous must suffer in hell and the penance the gluttonous must engage in purgatory. In both realms, the gluttonous are in some […]