Dante also meets his Italian contemporaries, chief among them, Florentines and neighboring Tuscans. Along the way, Dante meets an array of sinners from Christian and classical history and legend. They begin at the dark and savage wood near the Inferno entrance and then enter into its nine circles going deeper, one after another, in sin. We the readers place faith in him to represent us in finding our way through the Inferno to come out the other side enlightened.įor his fateful journey through the perilous terrain of the Inferno, Dante is lead by Virgil, the great poet of classical Rome. He begins a journey down into Hell in which terror and confusion transform into an understanding of the divine plan and the realization of divine love. But that forbidding inscription applies only to those who have no faith. “All hope abandon, ye who enter in!” reads the now famous words above the gate through which Dante, the protagonist of the Inferno, crosses the threshold.
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