Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, "Inferno"
Entitled: "The Inferno according to Dante; in the centre Lucifer who holds damned souls and in his talons seven kings, surrounded by damned souls being tortured by devils, after a fresco in the Campo Santo, Pisa." Lucifer is a name that refers to the Devil. The Devil is the primary opponent of God in Abrahamic religions. Christianity identifies the Devil (Satan) with the serpent who tempted Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, and describes him as a fallen angel who terrorizes the world through evil, is the antithesis of Truth, and shall be condemned, together with the fallen angels who follow him, to eternal fire at the Last Judgement. Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno tells the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the "realm ... of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen". Engraving by Circle of Baccio Baldini, circa 1460-80.
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