May 13, 2009
Inferno
Written by Dante Alighieri
"Love, that releases no beloved from loving"
—line 103, pg 45, Canto V
Fun Facts
- Inferno is one of three ‘canticas’ that make up The Divine Comedy which is an allegorical poem about the Christian afterlife. It is considered the most important epic poem of Italian literature.
- It helped establish the Tuscan dialect as the Italian standard.
- There are many mathematical and numerological patterns throughout the book particularly with threes and nines.
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