In "The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno," Dante often uses love and romance as a theme to convey his message of Hell in The Inferno. The Inferno is epic that is about a telling of Dante through his Journey throughout Hell while being guided by Virgil. ... Love plays a important aspect in "The Inferno" because without it, Dante wouldn't have been able to complete his journey without his guide who was sent by Beatrice. ... In "The Inferno," Lust is the second circle of Hell which Dante encounters and it has people being punished by being blown back an...

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Inferno (Italian for "hell"), is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem "The Divine Comedy." ... It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. ... Allegorically, "Divine Comedy"  represents the journey of the soul towards God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin. ... Virgil then guides Dante through the nine circles of Hell. ... Allegorically, the Inferno represents the Christian soul seeing sin for what it really is. ...

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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. ... Dante gives much reverence to these classical poets, they are placed in the first circle of hel...

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