FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Brutus
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Cassius
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Caesar
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Judas
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cassius is a main character in William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar that depicts the assassination of Caesar and its aftermath. He is also shown in the lowest circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno as punishment for betraying and killing Caesar.
Detailed explanation-2: -Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta are punished together in hell for their adultery: Francesca was married to Paolo’s brother, Gianciotto ("Crippled John").
Detailed explanation-3: -First Circle-Limbo Residing here are prominent individuals from antiquity, including Homer, Socrates, Aristotle, Cicero, Hippocrates and Julius Caesar who are punished for eternity within an inferior form of Heaven.
Detailed explanation-4: -Even though Paolo and Francesca committed adultery and therefore had to be put in the circle of the lustful, their love story is so moving that the readers conceive them as the innocent victims of a dreadful/unjust fate.