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| Illustration of Life after Death by Gustave Dore, Barnes & Noble, New York |
It was
squandering and hoarding that have robbed them
of the
lovely world and got them in this brawl…
You
see, my son, the short-lived mockery
of all
the wealth that is in the Fortune’s keep,
over which
the human race is bickering;
for all
the gold that is or ever was
beneath
the moon won’t buy a moment’s rest
for even
one among these weary souls.
(The Divine
Comedy, Canto VII 58-66 by Dante Alighieri, born in Florence, Italy Year 1265)
Earth is the centre
of the universe in the scheme of The Divine Comedy written by Dante in the Year
1300 . Hell is under the city of Jerusalem in the Northern Hamisphere having
nine levels or circles.
When Dante enters the
Fourth Circle of Hell, he is confronted by Plutus, the god of wealth who tells
him that this region is reserved for the those, who are guilty of greed.
Greedy men, who
remained busy in squandering and hoarding could not see the beauty of the
world. They shall continue to do brawl for wealth in hell.
See
the mockery of life that even if all the wealth of fortune and all the gold
which was and ever will be on the planet, over which all human are fighting, is
taken, it cannot buy a moment of rest and a night’s sleep even for one soul.
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| Greedy condemned to roll the sacks of gold endlessly in the hell. |
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