Inferno

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Inferno is the first cantica of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, depicting the poet’s allegorical journey through the nine circles of Hell.

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Inferno canonical 15
Dante's Inferno 3
Dante’s Inferno 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf allegorical poem
cantica
epic poem
allegoricalMeaning the soul’s recognition of sin
approximateCompositionEnd c. 1314
approximateCompositionStart c. 1308
author Dante Alighieri
centralTheme moral retribution
sin and divine justice
the consequences of free will
circleCount 9
circleEightTheme fraud
circleFiveTheme wrath and sullenness
circleFourTheme avarice and prodigality
circleNineTheme treachery
circleOneName Limbo
circleSevenTheme violence
circleSixTheme heresy
circleThreeTheme gluttony
circleTwoTheme lust
climacticLocation frozen lake of Cocytus
compositionPeriod early 14th century
countryOfOrigin Italy
depicts the nine circles of Hell
featuresCharacter Charon
Count Ugolino
Francesca da Rimini
Lucifer
Minos
Malatesta
surface form: Paolo Malatesta

Ulysses
finalScene Dante and Virgil climb down Lucifer and emerge on the other side of the world
firstCantoNumberingNote Divine Comedy
surface form: Canto I serves as a general prologue to the Divine Comedy
followsNarratively Dante’s crisis in a dark wood
genre allegory
epic poetry
guideCharacter Virgil
influenced Christian visual art
Western literature
modern depictions of Hell
languageVariant Tuscan dialect
literaryForm narrative poem
literaryMovement Medieval literature
mainCharacter Dante (protagonist)
surface form: Dante
meter terza rima
numberOfCantos 34
openingLine Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
originalLanguage Italian
partOf Divine Comedy
precedes Purgatorio
rhymeScheme aba bcb cdc ded ...
setting Hell
structureFeature nine circles of Hell

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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy part Inferno
subject surface form: Divine Comedy
The Waste Land alludesTo Inferno
Dante Alighieri notableWork Inferno
Dante Alighieri hasPart Inferno
Virgil portrayedIn Inferno
this entity surface form: Divine Comedy
Strange Meeting alludesTo Inferno
this entity surface form: Dante's Inferno
Hell depictedIn Inferno
this entity surface form: Inferno (Dante)
Hell hasAlternativeName Inferno
Bertrand de Born describedBySource Inferno
this entity surface form: Dante's Inferno
Bertrand de Born presentInWork Inferno
this entity surface form: Inferno, Canto XXVIII
Cerberus appearsIn Inferno
this entity surface form: Dante's Inferno
Beatrice appearsIn Inferno
Purgatorio follows Inferno
Tiresias appearsInWork Inferno
this entity surface form: Dante’s Inferno
Durante notableWork Inferno
subject surface form: Durante degli Alighieri
Paradiso follows Inferno
L’Enfer hasEnglishTitle Inferno
this entity surface form: The Inferno