The Inferno (Italian for “Hell”) is one of the most famous poems in Dante’s Inferno, the epic poem by Dante Alighieri. In the poem, Hell is depicted as a series of nine circles of suffering lying on the earth. The Roman poet Virgil, who leads us on our journey to Dante in Hell, is the first and most influential poet in the history of humanity and the author of many other great works. The plot of the Divine Comedy is simple: the man, who is generally assumed to be Dante himself, is miraculously enabled to undertake an ultra-profane journey that leads him to the souls of hell, purgatory and paradise. In the Inferno and Purgatory, in which Virgil leads us and Beatrice introduces us to Paradiso, we have our first encounter with Dante in the form of a man named Dante. While the Inferno describes the acknowledgment and rejection of sin, the Divine Comedy represents a journey to the soul of God.
This fictional encounter takes place after Dante and Virgil have gone through hell, but of course the exile Dante was expecting had already taken place at the time of writing. Dante’s Inferno not only captures the concept of hell portrayed in the poem, but also masterfully brings the images to life. The poem consists of over 100 songs divided into three main parts: Inferno, Purgatory and Hell. Technically speaking, there is an additional song in Inferno, which serves as an introduction to the entire poem.
Dante’s Hell consists of three main parts: Purgatory, Hell and Inferno, each with its own music and lyrics, as well as an additional song. Depending on the sins committed in life, a certain circle representing that sin will send him or her to another part of hell, depending on the sin he or she has committed in the course of life.
The monster Geryon transports Virgil and Dante from the Great Abyss to the eighth circle of hell, known as Malebolge, or evil bag or bag. The term refers to a great fold in the earth that separates the various pockets, and the one in Nessus leads you into the second ring of the seventh circle in hell, where you will meet the blasphemers, those who are violent in nature (sodomites). If you go deeper, you will find the essence of a violent God (the “blasphemers”). While you’re getting violent, Dante meets his old promoter Brunetto Latini, walks through the burning sand and meets him again. In the first bag, the seducers are beaten with whips, and in the second bag they must lie in a river of human excrement. The inferno tells us that Dante is unexpectedly stranded on the edge of the great abyss and that the only way is blocked by leopards, lions and wolves.
Redemption comes from the embodiment of human reason, which, according to comedy, is the first step to heaven. Thus, like Virgil, Dante begins his journey to Heaven, and so does the rest of the world. He describes how sinners can be punished with nine degrees of eternal damnation, which he imagines to be the nine degrees of hell, each of which has its own punishments. Dante invented various sins to punish them, which means that every soul is punished in a way that is contrary to the sin of which it is guilty.
Dante’s three-part series begins with the Inferno, which describes the nine degrees of hell and their punishments, as well as Dante’s interpretation of each of them. Dante and Virgil meet repentant sinners in order to earn the privilege of going to Heaven, and he continues his journey by ascending through the planetary circle that leads to Heaven. Dante awakens and finds himself in the midst of a battle with the demons of hell and the gods of heaven and earth. In this soul Dante meets Virgil, his great poetic example, who leads the two pilgrims on their journey through the planetary circle to Heaven in search of a better life in Heaven. After discovering that his sins did not correspond to those of Christianity, he followed the path of his friend and fellow pilgrim, the great poet Virgilio. While he is in the circle, Virgil is worried, but he assures Dante that he will not harm his fellow pilgrims.
Pagan culture, as in many other religions, such as Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and even pagan cultures in the Middle East. These pagans included other great writers and poets of antiquity who died before Christ was known. Dante met Horace, Ovid and Lucan and went on to the second circle of hell, which was reserved for the sin of lust. The monster Minos lurks in the third circle, which is assigned to condemned souls as punishment, as well as in the first circle.