~Dante Inferno~

Question

Canto 28:
At the end of this canto, Bertran de Born, French troubadour poet and false counselor to King Henry II of England, explains that he is punished with the usual "law of counter-penalty" ("contrapasso" in Italian). How does "contrapasso" work, and how do the other souls in this canto suffer in accordance with it?

Answer 1

See this website for an explanation of Dante's counter-penalty concept and how (in paragraph 6) it is applied to Bertran de Born:

http://www.123helpme.com/assets/4313.html