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Which sinners are punished by Lucifer at the bottom of Dante Alighieriâs Hell?
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Italian poet Dante Alighieri, oil on panel by an unknown artist, c. 1550; in the Yale University Art Gallery
At the very bottom of the pit of Hell, in the ninth circle, Luciferâa giant with three mouthsâeternally chews on three notorious traitors: Judas Iscariot, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Gaius Cassius Longinus.12
These figures are punished at the center of the world, where Lucifer is frozen in a lake of ice. This setting represents the farthest point from God and the complete absence of warmth, love, and goodness.12