Canto XII of Dante's Inferno visits the men who live and died by violence. The men stand in a river of blood, and the amount of their body that is submerged in the blood indicates how violent they were in life.
Rivers of Blood
As if Dante's Inferno were not all about violence, much of it physical violence dealt out to others, the seventh circle of Hell is announced as the place where the violent are punished, and canto XII begins the crossing of it. Not until canto XVII will this ...