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Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

A journey through Dante’s imagined Hell

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A journey through Dante’s imagined Hell

Set on Good Friday in 1300, the poem begins with Dante lost in a dark forest and guided by the Roman poet Virgil through the abyss. Their encounters with the dead are organized around categories of sin, from lust and gluttony to violence, culminating in the frozen depths of Hell. As the opening part of The Divine Comedy, Inferno combines a journey through an afterlife with questions about human conduct and divine justice. Its medieval vision of punishment also offers a point of reference for the ways Hell has been depicted in later culture.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in medieval literature and epic poetry
  • Those exploring Dante’s Divine Comedy or depictions of the afterlife
  • Readers interested in themes of sin, human nature, and divine justice

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Sin and punishmentDivine justiceThe afterlifeMedieval literature

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All hope abandon, ye who enter in!

Just before dawn on Good Friday, 1300, the gates of Hell swing open. Lost in a dark forest, the poet Dante stumbles across the ghost of Virgil who guides him on a long journey home through the abyss. Together, they meet the sinners of the past: lustful, gluttonous, wrathful, heretic, and violent, all the way to the worst of the worst in the freezing pit below.

Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, one of the greatest epic poems ever written, and the pre-eminent work of Italian literature. Posing eternal questions of human nature and divine justice, Inferno has inspired artists and thinkers for hundreds of years; its torments and horrors giving shape to our modern image of Hell itself.

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