Structure of Dante's hell

THE STRUCTURE OF DANTE’S HELL WRITTEN BY LLA In the new video series that I have just started, I am using the structural model of hell created by the italian poet Dante Alighieri in his masterpiece, the Divine Comedy. Hell obviously occupies the first of the three parts of the poem (Inferno; the other two are centered on the other two otherworldly worlds, namely Purgatory and Paradise), Dante crosses it in twenty-four hours guided by his literary and ideal mentor, Virgil (a Latin poet of the era of Augustus, symbol of the human reason within the poem), during the year 1300, when Dante was thirty-five. In this short document I simply intend to explain the various circles into which Dante's Inferno is divided in order to make it more understandable why some characters fall into it and others do not, and in such a way that anyone who wants to replicate the format of the video can even without having read the poem directly (which I would still recommend). Before continuing, I think it is fundamental to say what Hell is for Dante: it is an enormous funnel dug in the center of the Earth (yes, in the Middle Ages it was known that the Earth was round) by Lucifer's fall from heaven after his defeat against the archangel Michael. Here are destined all the sinful souls of the world, and here they will reside for eternity, without any hope that their punishment will cease. Hell is guarded by many devils and demons, servants of Lucifer, and is the furthest place from God in the …