https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=103998&ppp=20&page=0#1392919

Go to the thread above to have a better understanding of the Divine Comedy book. It has a link at the top if you want to read translations of the book.

STEP RIGHT UP CAUSE NOW IS YOUR CHANCE!!!
Place people in one or more of the 9 circles of Hell!!!

If you know people have gone to hell. If you want people to go to hell. Who would they be? Why are they there?

What are they doing there?
(I’m talking are they are shoveling gold forever while it rains acid or what?)

Be flexible in your thinking.
You can take this as a rant question and get it off your chest about some people.
That one neighbor is always yelling at everyone! They will spend the rest of their days in the circle of Anger, endlessly yelling at his own reflection! They will be screaming about all the reasons they ended up their. Always feeling the need to take a breath, but will never be able to. A constant spewing of self hatred…

You could take this more seriously and use logic to place people from history in hell like maybe Cleopatra in Lust because she couldn’t stick with one lover or something.

Even make it fun and summon people like
13twisted666 : You are going to Hell! You shall be eating death nuts in the circle of Gluttony but be forever hungry because it all come out immediately the other end burning! All because you just can’t stop taking the Death Nut Challenge! Always hungry for the buuurrrrrn!

If anyone's looking for a summary, Dante penned the Divine Comedy after backing the wrong man in a religious schism left him exiled from the place of his birth-and more importantly, for him, the place of the birth, life and death of a girl he thought he loved despite never having managed to get up the nerve to talk to her.

The Inferno established that he was important enough (classic self-promotion fantasies) to warrant being lead through hell, purgatory and heaven by one of his favorite authors (Virgil the poet)simply to see and finally speak with her before getting kicked back out to live a more informed life. The Inferno is also where he described the nine rings of hell, which he populated with people he hated so he could spit on them and have Virgil applaud the act. He named the leader of the faction that had won in that religious scuffle as doomed to be thrown into a flaming coffin where he would await whoever came next to lay on top of him and make his afterlife even more miserable, viciously attacked someone who was trying to use the boat to help him float in the river of Wrath (hypocrite much?) and condemned purely fictional characters to horrible punishments even if he had to change the fiction to justify it. (Odysseus' end was rewritten so he grew bored and forced his crew into a new journey that saw them all killed and condemned to hell while Cassius and Brutus, the thug who plotted Caesar's death in Shakespeare's play and the dumb brute he persuaded that offing the emperor was the only way to help the people, were both being eternally ground between the devil's teeth.) There is basically nothing anyone could do that would be more petty than Dante himself.

Two minor notes: this was the first attempt to actually describe hell beyond suggestions it is full of fire and brimstone and the church reviled him for writing details that he'd never had them vet first but still managed to steal the idea for their own use, and even though Dante will understood homosexuality was a Sin Against Nature to the church of his time, warranting especially hideous punishments, he still managed to be very sympathetic to a friend and fellow author who'd been a wonderful chap aside from his preferences. Virgil, unsurprisingly, forgot he was supposed to be chastising Dante for any and all expressions of sympathy or forgiveness to these who were cursed by his god.