Inferno. Inferno 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 journey of the soul toward God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin. Canto I The poem begins on the night of Maundy Thursday on March 24, AD 1300, shortly before dawn of Good Friday.
The narrator, Dante himself, is thirty-five years old, and thus midway in the journey of our life-half of the Biblical lifespan of seventy. The poet finds himself lost in a dark wood, astray from the straight way of salvation. He sets out to climb directly up a small mountain, but his way is blocked by three beasts he cannot evade: a lonza, a leone, and a lupa. The three beasts, taken from the Jeremiah 5:6, are thought to symbolize the three kinds of sin that bring the unrepentant soul into one of the three major divisions of Hell. According to John Ciardi, these are incontinence; violence and bestiality; and f
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 journey of the soul toward God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin. Canto I The poem begins on the night of Maundy Thursday on March 24, AD 1300, shortly before dawn of Good Friday.
The narrator, Dante himself, is thirty-five years old, and thus midway in the journey of our life-half of the Biblical lifespan of seventy. The poet finds himself lost in a dark wood, astray from the straight way of salvation. He sets out to climb directly up a small mountain, but his way is blocked by three beasts he cannot evade: a lonza, a leone, and a lupa. The three beasts, taken from the Jeremiah 5:6, are thought to symbolize the three kinds of sin that bring the unrepentant soul into one of the three major divisions of Hell. According to John Ciardi, these are incontinence; violence and bestiality; and f
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