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2. Inferno (Dante) - Wikipedia

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   Inferno (Italian: [iɱˈfɛrno]; Italian for 'Hell') is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century narrative poem The Divine Comedy, followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso.

3. Category:Characters in the Divine Comedy - Wikipedia

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   Dante Alighieri (6 C, 32 P) ... Pages in category "Characters in the Divine Comedy" The following 121 pages are in this category, out of 121 total.

4. 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]

5. Malebranche (Divine Comedy) - Wikipedia

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   The Malebranche (Italian: [ˌmaleˈbraŋke]; "Evil Claws") [1] are the demons in the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy who guard Bolgia Five of the Eighth Circle . They figure in Cantos XXI, XXII, and XXIII. Vulgar and quarrelsome, their duty is to force the corrupt politicians to stay under the surface of a boiling lake of pitch.

6. Divine Comedy - Wikipedia

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   Dante's use of real characters, according to Dorothy Sayers in her introduction to her translation of the Inferno, allows Dante the freedom of not having to involve the reader in description, and allows him to "[make] room in his poem for the discussion of a great many subjects of the utmost importance, thus widening its range and increasing ...

7. List of cultural references in the Divine Comedy - Wikipedia

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   Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, a detail of a painting by Domenico di Michelino, Florence 1465.. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts (or canticas): the Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso (), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos.

8. Second circle of hell - Wikipedia

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   The second circle of hell is depicted in Dante Alighieri's 14th-century poem Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy. Inferno tells the story of Dante's journey through a vision of the Christian hell ordered into nine circles corresponding to classifications of sin; the second circle represents the sin of lust , where the lustful are ...

9. Third circle of hell - Wikipedia

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   Cerberus in the third circle of hell, as depicted by William Blake. The presence of Cerberus in the third circle of hell is another instance of an ancient Greek mythological figure adapted and intensified by Dante; as with Charon and Minos in previous cantos, Cerberus is a figure associated with the Greek underworld in the works of Virgil and Ovid who has been repurposed for its appearance in ...