In canto 15 of the inferno, the sin is the violent against nature, but what is their punishment?

Question

also, what is the symbolic retribution of these?

Answer 1

Locked in dry plain and barren sand tormented by endless rain of flakes of fire:

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Before the Poets leave the Regions of Burning Sand, they meet a detachment of Spirits who had been guilty of Crimes against Nature. Among those, with some difficulty, Dante recognizes the Shade of the celebrated Brunetto Latini, who had been his tutor in his early days, from whom he learns the cause of his Punishment, and the Names of his Associates.


Get more details within these brief contexts:

http://www.novelguide.com/TheInferno/summaries/Canto14-15.html

http://www.hull.ac.uk/dante/inferno/canto15.htm

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Answer 2

That's an interesting question!