Word: moralists
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Dante was a strong moralist, and he shows it in his "inexorable sense of righteousness in the apportionment of penalties." Those who sinned through the impulse of their passions are punished by the forces of nature; the sinners through craftiness are punished by the worst tortures ingenuity can devise; and, finally, those who betrayed their friends are punished by burial in a plain of ceaseless ice. They--Brutus, Cassius, Judas--are the basest sinners...