a new source text for Dante’s contrapasso in this circle: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics 3.1, on compulsion and the will, features an example of a man being carried by the wind against his will.the contrapasso that Dante devises for the circle of lust is the infernal windstorm (“bufera infernal” ) whose metaphoric connection to the sin in question works by analogy: the wind buffets and controls the lustful in the afterlife in the same way that their passions buffetted and controlled them while in this life.the illicit “fornication” that is such a staple of preachers’ sermons) instead, Dante emphasizes the incorrect belief that love controls us and deprives us of free will Dante’s treatment of lust focuses not on illicit sexual actions per se (e.g.that said, the second circle of Dante’s Hell is significantly more “infernal” or “hellish” than the first circle thus, Minos, adjudicator of the damned, stands at the threshold of the second circle (see “Minos’s Tail: The Labor of Devising Hell ” in Coordinated Reading).what does not happen in Dante’s circle of lust: the Commedia does not include the genital tortures that are a staple of vision literature and contemporary artwork (see for instance Giotto’s Last Judgment in the Scrovegni Chapel).
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