Intro: (This essay is about the punishment of those with "unnatural tendencies" in the third ring of the seventh circle of Hell in Dante's "Inferno." The Professor's assignment relied heavily on looking closely at the meanings of specific words in only a small part of one canto so, in short, I had to expound or go deeper on few words.) In lines 36-42, 48, 53-60 of Canto XV of Dante's Inferno, Dante is walking through the …showed first 75 words of 2404 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2404 total…garnered as right because following the appetite is merely doing as man was made to do. So it would be if not for the horrible reality of the first sin which every man is bound to. Man is not the perfection of society but rather he must strive for the perfection he lost and seek the ultimate good through embracing the true good and follow the guidance of the Church to deny and avoid sin.