Inferno is the first section of Dante Alighieri's three-part poem Commedia, often known as the Divine Comedy. Tremble, not caused by tortures, but from grief Here, as mine ear could note, no plaint was heardĮxcept of sighs, that made the eternal air Dante also uses his depiction of Limbo to discuss the Harrowing of Hell, using the motif to explore the concept of predestination. They live eternally in a castle set on a verdant landscape, but forever removed from heaven.ĭante's depiction of Limbo is influenced by contemporary scholastic teachings on two kinds of Limbo-the Limbo of Infants for the unbaptised and the Limbo of the Patriarchs for the virtuous Jews of the Old Testament the addition of Islamic, Greek, and Roman historical figures to the poem is an invention of Dante's, which has received criticism both in his own time and from a modern perspective. The first circle is Limbo, the space reserved for those souls who died before baptism and for those who hail from non-Christian cultures.

Inferno tells the story of Dante's journey through a vision of hell ordered into nine circles corresponding to classifications of sin. The first circle of hell is depicted in Dante Alighieri's 14th-century poem Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy. The castle in the first circle of hell, as illustrated by Stradanus

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