Dante where is hell

Every canto also contains visual material, keyed to specific passages. Click on Images to view a list of the visual material available for each canto. To view the images click on the terms or names in the right margin. Follow the links for additional information on the images.

The letter I between in the margin between the English and Italian texts indicates the passage which the image illustrates. At all timers users can also access an interactive version of Botticelli's Chart of Hell, maps of Italy, additional visual material, and an interactive timeline. Satan is in the ninth and lowest circle of Hell, which is right in the centre of the earth. Climbing down beneath him, Dante and Virgil eventually emerge on the ground in the southern hemisphere.

Virgil tells Dante that they have now seen all of Hell and must leave at once. Putting Dante on his back, Virgil performs a startling feat. During his pilgrimage from Hell to purgatory to paradise, the way is obstructed by ruins, destroyed, as one demon reveals to Virgil, by an ancient earthquake.

The worst sinners, in his underworld, were the traitors—those who betrayed their loved ones, their country, and their God. Dante, in full Dante Alighieri, born c. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia The Divine Comedy. In Dante was offered a pardon and the chance to return to Florence.

To take advantage of it he would have had to perform a public penance, which he refused to do so he remained in exile. In Dante moved to the city of Ravenna, where he completed the Commedia in Inferno opens on the evening of Good Friday in the year Traveling through a dark wood, Dante Alighieri has lost his path and now wanders fearfully through the forest. Sixth Circle: Heresy Dante wrote that heretics spent eternity entombed in flaming crypts in the sixth circle, but heresy is kind of an obscure sin in modern times.

It is composed of three rings. The outer ring is filled with blood and fire and reserved for murderers and thugs. The middle ring is where, according to Dante, suicide victims go. How about we ret-con this one Sorry, residents of the sixth circle… and reserve it for the likes of the Westboro Baptist Church? Eighth Circle: Fraud The eighth circle is subdivided into ten trenches.

Dante described ditches, but I prefer to think of the eight circle as being a giant cubicle farm full of phone and internet fraudsters. So … Washington, DC in February? Start earning points for buying books! Uplift Native American Stories.