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  2. Inferno (Dante) - Wikipedia

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    Dante addresses Brunetto with deep and sorrowful affection, "paying him the highest tribute offered to any sinner in the Inferno", [76] thus refuting suggestions that Dante only placed his enemies in Hell. [77] Dante has great respect for Brunetto and feels spiritual indebtedness to him and his works ("you taught me how man makes himself ...

  3. Malebolge - Wikipedia

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    In Dante's version of Hell, categories of sin are punished in different circles, with the depth of the circle (and placement within that circle) symbolic of the amount of punishment to be inflicted. Sinners placed in the upper circles of Hell are given relatively minor punishments, while sinners in the depths of Hell endure far greater torments.

  4. Second circle of hell - Wikipedia

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    Dante's orderly hell is a representation of the structured universe created by God, one which forces its sinners to use "intelligence and understanding" to contemplate their purpose. [15] The nine-fold subdivision of hell is influenced by the Ptolemaic model of cosmology, which similarly divided the universe into nine concentric spheres.

  5. First circle of hell - Wikipedia

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    Inferno is the first section of Dante Alighieri's three-part poem Commedia, often known as the Divine Comedy.Written in the early 14th century, the work's three sections depict Dante being guided through the Christian concepts of hell (Inferno), purgatory (), and heaven (). [2]

  6. Impressions: Dante's Inferno burns in (the fifth circle of) Hell

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    Sitting in on a behind-closed-doors demo of Dante's Inferno, seeing the game in action for the first time, I was stunned by the dead-on likeness to God of War, in every detail and gameplay ...

  7. Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli - Wikipedia

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    Thus the principal figures of Dante, Virgil and Beatrice often appear several times in an image. [16] There are two additional drawings, a map of Hell preceding Inferno, and a double-page drawing of Lucifer that depicts Dante's and Virgil's descent to Hell. [1]

  8. Purgatorio - Wikipedia

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    As described in the Inferno, the first twenty-four hours of Dante's journey took place on earth and started on the evening of Maundy Thursday, 24 March (or 7 April) 1300 (Inf. I and II), and the next full day (Good Friday) was spent exploring the depths of Hell with Virgil as a guide (Inf. III–XXXIV.69).

  9. Dis (Divine Comedy) - Wikipedia

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    In the sixth book of Virgil's Aeneid (one of the principal influences on Dante in his depiction of Hell), the hero Aeneas enters the "desolate halls and vacant realm of Dis". [4] His guide, the Sibyl, corresponds in The Divine Comedy to Virgil, the guide of "Dante" as the speaker of the poem.