The Inferno of Dante

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Princeton 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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