Toynbee "Sodomiti"
Sodomites, those who have been guilty of unnatural offences; placed among the Violent in Round 3 of Circle VII of Hell, Inf. xv. 16 to Inf. xvi. 87; schiera, [Inf. xv. 16]; famiglia, [Inf. xv. 22]; greggia, [Inf. xv. 37]; compagni. [Inf. xv. 102]; gente, [Inf. xv. 118]; torma, [Inf. xvi. 5] [Violenti]: their punishment is to be kept continually running in different bands over a desert of burning sand, while flakes of fire fall upon them from above ([Inf. xiv. 13-30]); if any of them stop for as much as a moment they have to lie for a hundred years without being able to screen themselves from the falling fire ([Inf. xv. 37-39]). Examples (in the first division): Brunetto Latini [Brunetto] Priscian [Prisciano]; Francesco d'Accorso [Accorso, Francesco d'], Andrea de' Mozzi [Andrea de' Mozzi]; (in the second division): Guido Guerra [Guido Guerra]; Tegghiaio Aldobrandi [Aldobrandi, Tegghiaio]; Jacopo Rusticucci [Iacopo Rusticucci]; Guiglielmo Borsiere [Borsiere, Guiglielmo].

Those who expiate offences against nature in Purgatory are placed with the Lustful in Circle VII, their punishment being to pass and repass through intensely hot flames, while they proclaim aloud the names of Sodom and Gomorrah, [Purg. xxvi. 28-81]; gente, [Purg. xxvi. 28], [Purg. xxvi. 76]; nuova gente, [Purg. xxvi. 40]; l'una gente, [Purg. xxvi. 46]; quella turba, [Purg. xxvi. 65] [Lussuriosi]. No examples are named, but the charge brought against Julius Caesar of having been guilty of this offence is referred to, [Purg. xxvi. 76-78] [Cesare_1].

©Oxford University Press 1968. From A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante by Paget Toynbee (1968) by permission of Oxford University Press