Inferno

1 About this book

Inferno is the first of the three parts of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, the narrative poem he wrote in Italian in the fourteenth century. Midway through his life, Dante finds himself lost in a dark wood. The shade of the Roman poet Virgil comes to guide him, and leads him down through Hell, which Dante imagines as nine concentric circles descending to the center of the Earth. In each circle sinners suffer a punishment that fits their sin. The journey continues in Purgatorio and Paradiso, and the whole poem is an allegory of the soul's way toward God.

• Classics
• Poetry
• Illustrations
• Knowledge
• Genealogy
• Hell
• Commentaries
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