Midway upon his journey in life, Dante Alighieri wrote a powerful, famous poem about the afterlife and Hell. Inferno. No one had ever created such an elaborate architecture for the underworld before. The result shocked Dante's contemporaries - and still inspires fear and mystery in those who read it today. Who is there? Where are they? Why? This short, informative "tour" of Dante's Hell introduces some of the most important people to be found, there, including Cassius and Brutus from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Pope Celestine V, the one who quit, and of course, Virgil, the author of The Aeneid, and Dante's personal guide. While this poetic tour of the unfortunate afterlife was first published 700 years ago, this book explains its twists and turns to you, today. Follow along and in a brief amount of time you will see where Virgil and Dante go, the meaning behind the circles of Hell, and the faces one meets along the way.
