The Comedy of Dante AlighieriGuided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the twenty four circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damnedfrom heretics and pagans to gluttons, criminals, and seducerswho tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in Dante's life. In this first part of his Divine Comedy, Dante fused satire and humour with