~The Malebolge~

Suffer eternally in the multi-leveled Malebolge, an ampitheatre-shapped pit of despair wholly of stone and of an iron colour. Those guilty of fraudulence and malice; are whipped by horned demons; dunked in boiling pitch by demons known as the Malebranche. The simonists, wedged into stone holes, and whose feet are licked by flames, kick and writhe desperately. Some wallow in human excrement. Serpents writhe and wrap around men, sometimes fusing into each other. Bodies are torn apart. Sinners here are afflicted with scabs like leprosy, and lay sick on the ground, furiously scratching their skin off with their nails. Indeed, justice divine doth smite them with its hammer.