Inferno is the first part of Dante’s 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through the medieval concept of Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. Allegorically, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul towards God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin
We slip one rung on the ladder,
We let a little heat from the balloon,
Mind the doors please, going down,
To reach the Second Circle, but first, Arraignments, Confessions, Verdicts,
Redder, hotter, brighter, smaller, (more concentrated, more pain).
And here, Minos, son of Zeus, Magistrate of Hell.
