The 27th Canto of Dante's Inferno talks about fraudulent counselors. These are not people who give false advice, rather people who use their position to teach others to engage in fraud.
The punishment these people go through is to be engulfed in fire. This punishment seems fitting because as these people were leading others into sin with their tongues they will be engulfed in "tongues of fire."
Dante met a soul named Guido who talked about how his mind was altered Bob Boniface VIII who was a pope. Guido advised this pope to overlook a grudge he and against a family who took shelter from him. The Pope, as well as the family involved in the feud agreed to the terms but right as the family left their castle the Pope destroyed it leaving them without shelter.
Fraudulent Counselors = Consigliere fraudolento
I commented on Sierra's and Darby's.
For some reason, I didn't see that. That raises my own question on why Odysseus has been lumped with the fraudulent counselors.
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