As well as a book referencing his work, a video game was created solely off of The Inferno, a video game which you play as Dante himself to save Beatrice, the love of his life, simply called Dante's Inferno. Within The Atlantic's article by Benjamin Popper, he references Jonathan Knight, a producer for the company which created the game, that the player would be “. . . traveling through a series of levels, deeper into the center of the earth, . . . reading the poem you realize right away, this would

Dante the character, representing human reason. Throughout the Inferno and Purgatorio sections of the book, Virgil leads Dante and teaches him about their surroundings. In each of the circles of Hell, he tells him about the sins for the given circle, and some of the sinners there. He also does the same in Purgatory. He is there for Dante because Beatrice, Dante’s

work that we looked at that really stood out to me was Dante 's inferno. Something about one of the only real documented perceptions of hell really intrigued me when reading. Although the novel is most likely fictional, its still really interesting to me to hear the authors interpretation of hell was, and it really made me think if he knew something that no one else did. Dante 's Inferno, which is sometimes referred to as simply inferno, was written in the 14th century and is one of the most well known

The Christian belief is that there are three different destinations, in which the soul could end up after passing from this time on earth. These destinations are known as Hell, Purgatory and Heaven, which explains Dante’s titles for his canticles; Inferno, Purgatorio and Paridiso. The souls who have committed mortal sins and have destroyed their relationship with God are put into Hell and those who have finished their penance or their souls are perfected are in Heaven or paradise. Purgatory is the

Dante’s Inferno is a divine comedy, which describes his and Virgil’s journey from hell to heaven. In this poem Dante describes the journey by himself; from him being lost in the darks woods to the hell. Dante describes the hell and the sinners using an allegorical approach. As the dynamic duo travel along the circles of hell, Dante describes his emotions, ranging from grief, sympathy to pleasure, directly to the reader. Before commencing the journey with Virgil, Dante is confused about why he was

Inferno By Brown Dan, Doubleday Publications, 2013, $9.73 paper, ISBN 978-1400079155 Reviewed by Karthik.M A critic of Christianity but says I am not an antichristian, an explorer of the truths of Vatican and Washington D.C, a songwriter, a novelist whose books were translated to 52 languages and sold around 200 million copies, Dan Brown has once proved his class. As in Robert Langdon’s series, he travels to Vatican, Paris, Washington D.C and now Florence. Coming to the physical look of the book

homosexuals, even if he does place them in Hell. This would have been highly progressive in the Middle Ages--and, for some Christian denominations today, it still would be progressive. Though it lists a hierarchy of those condemned to Hell, Dante’s Inferno shows how he was more lenient than many of his contemporaries, both in his ranking of sins, and his placement of sins in different Circles of Hell. While he still would not be progressive today, this would have been radical in the Middle Ages, when

Divina Comedia” which is now called “The Divine Comedy”,totally raised the bar and made new standards both in literature and history.The book consisted of three parts:inferno, Purgatorio, Paridiso .Each chapter told a different story. Inferno poem begins on the night before Good Friday in the year 1300, halfway along our life's path. Dante is thirty-five, lost in a dark wood (understood as sin), assailed by beasts (a lion, a leopard, and a she-wolf) he cannot evade, and unable to find