The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things 32:28–29, containing the lines "For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them", above, and "O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!" below. In 1560, Felipe de Guevara wrote about a pupil of Bosch, an unnamed "discipulo" (pupil), who was as good as his master and even signed his works with his master's name. Immediately after this, and without starting a new paragraph, Guevara refers to the painting of the "Seven Deadly Sins" as characteristic of his style. This led some scholars, as early as
Seven deadly sins disordered love for individuals, thus possessing at least the redeeming feature of mutuality, unlike the graver sins, which constitute an increasingly agonised focusing upon the solitary self (a process begun with the more serious sin of gluttony). It is generally thought to be the least serious capital sin as it is an abuse of a faculty that humans share with animals, and sins of the flesh are less grievous than spiritual sins (love excessive, not love turning ever further awry toward hatred of man and God). In Dante's "Purgatorio", the penitents walk deliberately through the purifying flames of the uppermost