In Dante's Inferno, Virgil delineates that, there are "three dispositions that Heaven refuses, Incontinence, malice, and mad bestiality " (Inferno, Canto XI, 80). ... Vices in the inferno thus concur with Aristotle's Ethical framework insofar as vice, as posited by Aristotle in The Nicomachean Ethics, is characterized similarly by immoderacy and incontinence. ... Indeed, it seems Aristotelian morality is the very source out of which conceptions of sin in the Inferno are constructed. ... The structure of Dante's Inferno narrowly accords with Aristotle's Ethical framework. ...

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Furthermore he was also very knowledgeable in many other areas; cultured as he was, he wrote a commentary on a portion of Dante and illustrated the Inferno, which he printed, spending much time over it. ...

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