"Which poet guided Dante through Hell in ""The Divine Comedy""?"
Inferno (Dante) 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 the
Dis (Divine Comedy) the hatred of Heaven, injustice is the goal; and every such goal injures someone either with force or fraud. There is perhaps a distinction between "malizia" as the characteristic of circles seven and eight, and the "matta bestialitade", "inhuman wickedness," of circle nine, which punishes those who threaten "the most basic civic, familial, and religious foundations of happiness." Dis (Divine Comedy) In Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy", the City of Dis ( ) encompasses the sixth through the ninth circles of Hell. Before the City is reached, in ninth canto, Dante encounters the unbaptised and then those who sinned by