Inferno, Paradiso and Purgatorio are sections of which epic poem by Italian Dante Alighieri?
Inferno (Dante) stars. Inferno (Dante) Inferno (; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem "Divine Comedy". It is followed by "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso". The "Inferno" tells the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the "realm ... of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen". As an allegory, the "Divine Comedy" represents
Paradiso (Dante) benefit (and the benefit of his readers), he is "as a sign" shown various souls in planetary and stellar spheres that have some appropriate connotation. While the structures of the "Inferno" and "Purgatorio" were based around different classifications of sin, the structure of the "Paradiso" is based on the four cardinal virtues (Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Fortitude) and the three theological virtues (Faith, Hope, and Charity). Dante's nine spheres of Heaven are the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed Stars, and the Primum Mobile. These are associated by Dante with the nine levels of the angelic