I had a Literature prof in college who had done his dissertation on The Divine Comedy. Beginning with English 101 where we studied The Inferno, I had him for a total of five very different courses; it didn't matter what the course was about – he would find a way to digress into The Inferno and elaborate about Dante Aligheri and/or particular circles of hell. Anyhoo he talked a lot about the White Nobility and Black Nobility of Italy. According to prof, Dante was from White Nobility family and prof would point out real-world characters Dante had known and put in hell for their sins and their punishment via divine retribution. God that man was a great teacher. May he rest in peace.
There are shady pasts and then there are debauched heinous blasphemous unrepentant presents.
The choice is yours.