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Inferno is a famous book written by an Italian author named Dante way back in the 1500s. It's the first part of a bigger story called The Divine Comedy. This story tells about a make-believe trip that two men take through Hell, which is a place of punishment in Christian beliefs. The two travelers are Dante himself and an ancient Greek poet named Virgil.

In Inferno, Hell is shown as having many different levels, like circles. Each circle is for people who committed different kinds of bad deeds, called sins. The punishments in each circle are different and depend on how serious the sins were. It's like a system where the punishment fits the crime.

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  • Inferno

    Canto I from the Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

  • Gustave Dore Inferno1

    Gustave Doré's engravings illustrated the Divine Comedy (1861–1868). Here, Dante is lost at the start of Canto I of the Inferno.

  • Gustave Doré - Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Plate 9 (Canto III - Charon)

    Gustave Doré's illustration of Canto III: Arrival of Charon

  • Stradano Inferno Canto 06

    The third circle, illustrated by Stradanus

  • Stradano Inferno Canto 08

    The fifth circle, illustrated by Stradanus

  • Stradano Inferno Map Lower

    Lower Hell, inside the walls of Dis, in an illustration by Stradanus; there is a drop from the sixth circle to the three rings of the seventh circle, then again to the ten rings of the eighth circle, and, at the bottom, to the icy ninth circle

  • Inf. 12 anonimo fiorentino

    "Along the brink of the vermilion boiling, / Wherein the boiled were uttering loud laments. / People I saw within up to the eyebrows ..."

  • DVinfernoBrunettoLatiniAccostsDante m

    Brunetto Latini speaks with Dante in Canto XV, an engraving by Gustave Doré

  • Inferno Canto 17 verse 117

    A Gustave Doré wood engraving of Geryon, Canto XVII

  • Sandro Botticelli - Inferno, Canto XVIII - WGA02854

    Illustration by Sandro Botticelli: Dante and Virgil visit the first two bolge of the Eighth Circle

  • Stradano Inferno Canto 20

    Punishment of sorcerers and diviners in the Fourth Bolgia, Canto XX, illustrated by Stradanus

  • Gustave Dore Inferno Canto 21

    Dante's guide rebuffs Malacoda and his fiends between Bolge V and VI, Canto XXI

  • Inferno Canto 26 verses 46-49

    Dante and Virgil observe the false counsellors, Canto XXVI

  • Gustave Doré - Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Plate 65 (Canto XXXI - The Titans)

    Titans and Giants, including Ephialtes on the left, in Doré's illustrations

  • Gustave Dore Inferno32

    Dante speaks to the traitors in the ice, Canto XXXII

  • Gustave Dore Inferno 34 caption

    Satan in the Inferno is trapped in the frozen central zone in the Ninth Circle of Hell, Canto XXXIV (Gustave Doré)

  • Manetti The Tomb of Lucifer 1506 Cornell CUL PJM 1004 07

    The Tomb of Lucifer, 1506

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