The Inferno of DantePrinceton University Press, 1931 - 251 pages The first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno describes Dante's journey 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 35 |
Section 3 | 37 |
Section 4 | 44 |
Section 5 | 50 |
Section 6 | 56 |
Section 7 | 63 |
Section 8 | 70 |
Section 18 | 140 |
Section 19 | 147 |
Section 20 | 153 |
Section 21 | 159 |
Section 22 | 172 |
Section 23 | 179 |
Section 24 | 186 |
Section 25 | 193 |
Section 9 | 75 |
Section 10 | 80 |
Section 11 | 86 |
Section 12 | 92 |
Section 13 | 98 |
Section 14 | 103 |
Section 15 | 122 |
Section 16 | 128 |
Section 17 | 134 |
Section 26 | 199 |
Section 27 | 205 |
Section 28 | 212 |
Section 29 | 218 |
Section 30 | 225 |
Section 31 | 232 |
Section 32 | 239 |
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