Inferno
Poetic damnation journey
Inferno is the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, depicting the poet's journey through Hell's nine circles.
The work has shaped Western imagery of damnation so thoroughly that any reference to circles of hell or elaborate punishments echoes it: Like something out of Dante's Inferno. (Lowercase inferno is a large fire.)
Italian allegorical verse trilogy
- VirgilClassical epic poet
- BeatriceClassical feminine name
- ParadisoHeaven in verse
- circlesEquidistant curves from centers
cantos · limbo · lust · gluttony · greed · wrath · heresy · violence
Eternal punishment decree
- brimstoneArchaic word for sulfur
- perditionEternal spiritual ruin
- demonsMalevolent supernatural beings
- SatanJudeo-Christian arch-enemy of God
Lucifer · underworld · Hades · Tartarus · Styx · Acheron · eternal flames · sinners
Extreme physical or emotional pain
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
affliction · ordeal · hell on earth · excruciating · nightmarish · harrowing · agonizing · unrelenting
Divine Comedy
Italian allegorical verse trilogy
circles · cantos · limbo · lust · gluttony · greed · wrath · heresy · violence · fraud
damnation
Eternal punishment decree
Satan · Lucifer · underworld · Hades · Tartarus · Styx · Acheron · eternal flames · sinners · punishment
agony
Extreme physical or emotional pain
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
misery · affliction · ordeal · hell on earth · excruciating · nightmarish · harrowing · agonizing · unrelenting
- Translated ClassicsDon Quixote, Divine Comedy, Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid
- Virgil & DanteDante, Aeneid, Divine Comedy, Beatrice, underworld journey
- Dante StudiesDivine Comedy, Paradiso, Beatrice
- Dante WorksDivine Comedy, Paradiso
- Italian poetryDante, Petrarch, sonnet, ottava rima, madrigal
- Classic BooksPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Moby-Dick, Great Expectations
Infernoarctic
Of extreme northern cold
freezing · frozen wasteland · ice · glacier · tundra
- towering infernoExtremely tall fire
- Dante's InfernoEpic poem depicting hell
- infernal devicesDiabolically designed explosives
- The Towering InfernoMassive building ablaze
- Disco InfernoFunk hit about flames
- infernal contractAgreement with dark forces