The Inferno is the first canticle of Dante's Divine Comedy, following Dante and Virgil through the nine circles of Hell. It is the most widely read part of the Comedy and one of the most influential texts in Western literature.
The most famous literary depiction of Hell; its geography of sin and punishment shaped Western imagination.
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