He would undoubtedly place Luther in the 8th circle among the sowers of religious discord, who repeatedly get chopped up by a demon with a sword and heal again before starting over. The majority of the Protestant leaders of the time would likely also be placed either there or in the burning coffins of the heretics (Dante used an atheist as his primary example in that particular pit, but most commentaries agree that he would assign most “casual heretics” there). The latter is in the 5th or 6th circle, I don’t remember off hand.
This is judgmental of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformers.
Didn’t Dante also put Pope Boniface VIII in Hell?
Woah! I’m really sorry! Should I delete this thread? I’m really sorry, I don’t want to break any of the forum rules. My question came out curiosity, not out of judgment.If you can delete it, I probably would. You didn’t mean any offense by it, but this sort of conjecture is still really insulting to our Protestant friends who like to frequent the forum.
Whether or not it technically breaks forum rules I couldn’t say, however the OP is neither judging nor asking us to judge. He is simply asking where Dante would have assigned the original Protestants had they been around in his time. Given the nature of the work it is not an inflammatory question, and I had a similarly themed assignment when I was in school. It is understood that it is a fictional work, which they make clear when it is discussed in detail in Catholic high schools.
Dante’s work is fictional.