Inferno The Divine Comedy I - Dante

Inferno Is The First Part Of Dantes Epic Poem The Divine Comedy, Revealing The Eternal Punishment Reserved For Such Sins As Greed, Self-deception, Political Double-dealing And Treachery. This Penguin Classics Edition Is Translated And Edited With An Introduction And Notes By Robin Kirkpatrick.describing Dantes Descent Into Hell Midway Through His Life With Virgil As A Guide, Inferno Depicts A Cruel Underworld In Which Desperate Figures Are Condemned To Eternal Damnation For Committing One Or More Of Seven Deadly Sins. As He Descends Through Nine Concentric Circles Of Increasingly Agonising Torture, Dante Encounters Doomed Souls Including The Pagan Aeneas, The Liar Odysseus, The Suicide Cleopatra, And His Own Political Enemies, Damned For Their Deceit.