Dante's Inferno
A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome
This lecture is a guide to a few iconic moments in the Inferno (Hell), the first part of the "Divine Comedy" written by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. The story recounts a...
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A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome – From the dark wood to Rome
When Dante is lost in the dark wood of sin, the soul of the Roman poet Virgil is sent from Heaven to rescue him and guide him on his way to salvation through Hell and Purgatory....
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A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome – Paolo and Francesca: Words of Desire (Inferno 5)
Dante and his guide Virgil are in the second circle of Hell, where lust, one of the sins of incontinence, is eternally punished in the 'hellish squall.' Here, the two poets meet...
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A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome – Hell’s Vineyard (Inferno 13)
Dante and Virgil are in the seventh circle of Hell where violence is punished. In the second section, those who had been violent to themselves have been transformed into trees....
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A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome – Infernal Rome (Inferno 18 & 27)
In Inferno 18, Dante and Virgil enter Malebolge (or Evil Pouches) in the eighth circle of Hell where fraud is punished. In the first pouch, the crowd of panderers and seducers...
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