Dante believed he had been empowered by God to write the Commedia thus he gave a conscious effort to stylise the Commedia to the Bible, furthermore, he greatly admired the classical poets such as Virgil and one can note immediately that Dante's idea of his epic journey was shaped from that of Virgil's in the "Aenied- The biblical content of this epic journey is highly potent, every canto of the inferno carries a range of diverse characters each with a function specific to the canto. ... One may view this as a contradiction in terms for example; Surely Dante could not have admired t...

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