The first part of Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy, also known as Inferno, tells about the spiritual pilgrimage of Dante from Hell to Purgatory (Fiero 148). ... As a matter of fact, the Inferno serves as criticism of his Italian contemporaries, some from history and legend from his era, marred by the severity of their sin (Sayre 441). Alighieri opted to write Inferno as vernacular literature in order to address and apply its message of conflicting moralities to a wider audience, of and from medieval Italy, and to the world today. ... " Even in hell, Dante and Latini show ...

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Augustine's Confessions and Dante Alighieri's Inferno are both stories about lost men on a journey to find salvation and God's grace in heaven. ... In Inferno, Dante goes through many battles while facing sin and temptation as he goes through the three divisions of Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradiso. The inferno is Dante's idea of what hell would be like and it represents all the kinds of temptation man goes through in order to find salvation. ... Dante's Inferno is also full of allegory and is all-together a learning process of Dante's life. ... Beatrice in heaven ...

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This obstacle is similar to a situation in another work, Dante's Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. ... Inferno is a story about Dante's a brief period in his life when he lost sight of his moral principles, and turns to his faith in order to get him back on the correct path. ... Education becomes the primary element in all aspects of Stephen's life, and it helps guide him, as does Virgil in Dante's Inferno. ... In The Inferno, Virgil guides Dante through hell in order to frighten him into abandoning his errant ways. ... The Inferno is a three-day trip into the unconscious, t...

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This obstacle is similar to a situation in another work, Dante's Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. ... Inferno is a story about Dante's a brief period in his life when he lost sight of his moral principles, and turns to his faith in order to get him back on the correct path. ... Education becomes the primary element in all aspects of Stephen's life, and it helps guide him, as does Virgil in Dante's Inferno. ... In The Inferno, Virgil guides Dante through hell in order to frighten him into abandoning his errant ways. ... The Inferno is a three-day trip into the unconscious, t...

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If this were true it would mean that Christianity is the only religion that has any truth behind it since this concept of Hell in Christianity states that all other people who are not Christian are heretics in the eyes of their God; the concept of Hell in The Inferno is the same Hell in the Christian bible. ... "As soon as Dante's strength returns, the Poets begin to cross the FIRST CIRCLE. ... So in the era in which The Inferno was written, sin and Hell were the system, which governed over the mortals. ... So the cultural perspectives of sin are capable of change; its difference between ...

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