Guest Post by Simon Black
On the evening of March 25 in the year 1300, Italian poet Dante Alighieri stepped through the gates of Hell, passing beneath an overhead inscription that read “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
Dante summoned all of his courage and proceeded, plunging deeper into the despair of hell.
This is the ‘Inferno’ tale of Dante’s Divina Commedia, an epic poem completed just before his death in 1321.
Dante’s version of hell is divided into nine concentric circles, each representing a different category of evil. The deeper they go, the worse the evil… and the worse the torment.
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