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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.It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso.
Inferno X, with just Dante (in red) and Virgil (in blue) coloured. Each page of the manuscript was approximately 32 cm high by 47 cm wide. Since the text of each canto was written on a single page and the accompanying illustration was on a separate page, arranging the two pages in a horizontal format would have been impractical as it would be ...
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]
Dante gazes at Mount Purgatory in an allegorical portrait by Agnolo Bronzino, painted c. 1530. The Divine Comedy is composed of 14,233 lines that are divided into three cantiche (singular cantica) – Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso () – each consisting of 33 cantos (Italian plural canti).
In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of the Divine Comedy, Malebolge (English: / ˌ m æ l ɪ ˈ b ɒ l dʒ / MAL-ib-OLJ, Italian: [ˌmaleˈbɔldʒe]; lit. ' evil ditches ') or Fraud is the eighth circle of Hell. [1]
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 ...
Dante's Satan remains a common image in popular portrayals. The answer to the question of how Satan wound up in the bottom of the pit in Dante's Inferno lies in Christian theological history. Some interpretations of the Book of Isaiah , combined with apocryphal texts, explain that Satan was cast from Heaven, and fell to earth. [ 5 ]
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 ...