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The Journey of Dante

Dante records journey through hell in the book "The Inferno." Dante's poem records is thoughts and views of the punishments to get to hell and the sins accomplished to get their. Dante breaks down the lay out all the way through hell and give one an idea of the order that the punishments fall to be placed closer to the center of hell. Dante begins during the era of the middle Ages and shows the reader throughout poem of the dominance of the Roman Catholic Church through the Renaissance era.

Dante starts out traveling up the hill that is blocked by three beasts; this is where the dark ages began. This is where “Dante's Divine Comedy' was one of the lights that led the west out of the Dark Ages and towards the light of the Renaissance.” As Dante passes through the depths of hell he begins to see sins that would be punished and tortured in medieval times to the same acts that are displayed in the era of the Renaissance, and yet are treated in other ways.......

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