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So, in Dante’s Limbo there are pagans, and he places them in a special place, a noble castle “within which is a beautiful meadow where the honorable souls are assembled”. Theologians believed that only babies could be found there in 1300 because Christ took away with Him all the Biblical worthies between His death and resurrection. This differs from traditional conception of Limbo at the time. Dante establishes that the people there know they lack something but don’t know what, so “they have no hope but live in longing”.ĭante places in his Limbo the souls of great pagans who lived lives of extreme virtue and accomplishment.
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Both of these groups haven’t sin so they don’t deserve punishment, but they haven’t been introduced to the true religion, so they can’t be saved either. This is the place of babies who died before they were baptized, also. The people there couldn’t believe in the true religion (Christianism) because of their historical circumstances: they couldn’t be saved because they were born and died before the upcoming of the saver, Jesus. It is a place of condemn but not physical torment. In Inferno IV, Dante introduces the first circle of Hell, Limbo.