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Dante: Inferno to Paradise
Gluttony
Dante and Virgil descend to the Third Circle of Hell, where they encounter those condemned for Gluttony. The character Ciacco describes the misery of his condition and explains that greed — or avariciousness — is the sin that corrupts everything.
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