VIRGIL'S INFLUENCE ON AND IN DANTE'S INFERNO
Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in 1265. In his life, he created two major
books of poetry: Vita Nuova and The Comedy. The Comedy, which was later renamed The
Divine Comedy, is an epic poem broken down into three books in each of which Dante recounts
his travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. The first installment of The Comedy, Dante's
Inferno, is an especially magnificent narrative. He narrates his descent and observation of Hell…
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