The Divine Comedy begins with Dante lost in a dark wood midway through life, unable to climb the sunlit hill because beasts block his way. Virgil comes as guide and leads him through Inferno, where punishments reveal the inner logic of disordered love, violence, fraud, and treachery.
Author
Dante Alighieri
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“Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost”
“All hope abandon, ye who enter in”