In the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri he discusses the different stages of hell, he starts off with the least harmful sinners, which are the opportunities and end with the worst sinners of all the fraudulent. Somewhere in between the least harmful sinners and the worst sinners of all is where Francesca da Rimini and Count Ugolino were found. Dante acts very differently to each of these people when he sees them. Dante acts differently to …showed first 75 words of 727 total…

…showed last 75 words of 727 total…never feel the warmth that god has to give. 2 Another similarity between the two cantos is that Franceasa and Ugolino both tell Dante the story of why they are put in the part of hell to begin with, I feel that they tell Dante this for one of two reasons to either have him feel sorry for them, or to tell other people the their side of the story to clear their name on earth.