Dante Alighieri's - Inferno: the Divine Comedy

[BuryYourFlame]

Has anyone read it? What did you think of it?

I am about to start reading, so far it looks pretty interesting.

I do not want a debate on thiestic beliefs, I simply want a discussion of the text.

[Aspiringanonymous]

I started reading it, but stopped after a while - haven't had the opportunity to read anything lately, with a load of due dates and tests all somehow positioned right after one another. Urgh!

I certainly enjoyed what I did read. Fascinating imagery. I did have a bit of trouble catching on with the heavy use of mythological allusion, though.

[Dreaming Cannibal]

I started reading it, never quite finish… em it's a pain to read cause the spanish it's written on it's so old
but i love the descriptions made there about the circles fave one so far its 5

[Magus]

I didn't like it much in some section, especially the religious views of the author.

But I admit, it was somewhat good.

Where would I be?

But the rest is beautifully imaginative formation of hell. The labyrinth, rings, circles and those other sub-division of the hell. Every thing is ok.

But strangely. Baptism, if we are virtuous and we are not baptized we end up in the first circle. And the first one is probably the alternate deviation of Earth(with the grassland and castles).