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The Question and Answer section for Divine Comedy-I: Inferno is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Dente's attitude to Florence is rather disdainful. He thinks Florence is a city of sinners though he has admired them for a lifetime.
Virgil, a Roman poet, wrote the Aeneid, which dealt in part with the adventures of Aeneas, who descended to the underworld. This may be why Dante chose to use him as a guide in his poem. The fictional Virgil is like an older, stronger, and wiser...
Minos is a figure from Classical mythology: he was the son of Zeus and Europa. Hell is divided into seven circles, according to the seriousness of the sins. Thus the first, Limbo, is the least blame-worthy, and the second, where the lustful are...
