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a land so hot and filled with pain that our fire,
when compared to the heat from the fire of hell,
is like a picture of fire painted on a wall.
In that place there are dangerous rivers made of fire
and ice, so hideous and horrible, full of the poison
and the foulness of beasts, that make such a great noise
and cause such disturbance to the sorrowful souls who have been put in that
abyss that no creature can recount the hundredth portion
of it. In the earth there are many other
dangerous and horrible places, in the sea as well
as in the earth's interior. Many islands in the sea
are filled with terrible stink and flaming sulphur, burning in
great fires that cause terrible pain. Similarly, there are other
great mountains of sulphur that burn night and day,
where many souls are weighed down and burn continually
to purge their iniquities and their evil. This may be enough
in speaking to you of this matter. For there is no creature
who knows how to describe the great torments and the
inestimable pain that a man of bad