Before Becoming Dantes Inferno

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Before Becoming Dante
In The Divine Comedy, written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and 1321, he describes his journey through three realms starting in Inferno leading up to Purgatory and finally arriving to Paradise. Inferno is one of the three parts in which Dante uses more description, including allusions from his background and from his religious point of view, including the Bible, old text, and Greek stories; creating a mixture of sources that he used. Not only that, but he also uses the first love of his life, Beatrice, whom he met when they were younger. Dante uses all backgrounds of his past for the reader to enjoy all the surroundings during his travel by also interpreting the situations of each circle that he has to pass until finally
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His masterpiece, The Divine Comedy is well known as one of the greatest poems ever known in worldwide literature, divided into three sections with one hundred cantos: the Inferno, the Purgatory, and the Paradise. It is a representation of an overview of the mores, attitudes, beliefs, philosophies, aspirations, as well the materials during the medieval world. Dante's poem is a work of fiction with dramatic episodes and unforgettable characters from his life or historical figures. The leading ideas of this Hell created from Dante’s imagination are the result of all he had learned, and seen, and known through his entire life. Visions among Nonbelievers, or in this case heretics, and Believers in Christianity before were still common in his own time, but those visions are generally of the most incoherent, except that the minds of men had long been practicing with religion or their beliefs since the beginning. Dante was familiar with the knowledge of Christianity and the mythology before current time, including with the world and wisdom of the ancient time that he sees, as in this case the first circle, limbo. Limbo shows some of the well known philosophers and authors of the ancient world. Discrimination is significant from what it is, and by boundless diligence, that he constructs an original and strong work. In Hell he recognizes all the good qualities of those that are condemned from the way