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any cosmology, especially dante's, is going to be based on extra-scriptural conjecture... and i don't think its fair to attempt to assign hell/non-hell judgements on folks.
personally, i think the question is moot, since i don't think hell exists, at least in a form we would recogize as such. but the overriding concern of the invetion of hell was to punish those who opressed the faithful in life and got away with it. to concieve that it would punish others is probably incorrect...in original heaven/hell cosmologies (circa 200-150 BCE), most virtous/average pagans (to borrow dante's word) would not be resurrected at all...they would simply stay in sheol, the nothingness. Their rewards and punishments were adequately dealt in life, and so there was no theodical arguement for why they should live again.
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