“either out of regard to his surviving relatives, who peradventure are honorable men, and therefore he did not wish to stain them with the infamy of so dishonest a death, or else (as in those times, as if by a malediction sent by God upon our city, many hanged themselves) that each one might apply it to either he pleased of these many.”

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In this third round of the seventh circle are punished the Violent against God,

“In heart denying and blaspheming him,

And by disdaining Nature and her bounty.”

“In heart denying and blaspheming him, And by disdaining Nature and her bounty.”