One specific group that is particularly apt for analysis is who were treacherous to kin, located in the first layer of circle nine in the Inferno. These individuals are frozen up to their necks in ice, the cold symbolizing a lack of human love and warmth, which they denied others in life. ... In life, these individuals were twin counts of Mangona, but they killed one another in a fight over their inheritance, so in death they are fittingly denied any warmth or human love, just as they denied it to each other in life. ... It is often said that fratricide is the worst crime imaginable as "...

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