The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Dante Alighieri
In The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Dante Alighieri travels deeper and deeper into the circles of Hell, encountering giants, poets, scholars, queens, politicians, popes, and more. What endears Dante to the reader is his compassion for the sinners, even though he later recognizes that pity is wasted on them. Dante Inferno is considered an outstanding epic poem; the last great writing of the Middle Ages and the first great work of the Renaissance.