Inferno

My first attempt at reading medieval poetry. The Italian poet Dante Alighieri finds himself in limbo after a run in with beasts of the forest. After joining forces with the shade of the Latin poet Virgil. Dante decends through hell, with the great poet Virgil as his guide. During their journey, the two poets encounter a multitude of pitfalls; creatures, and souls of the damned; punished for their sins against man, and God. Ending in a meeting with Lucifer himself, the two poets decend his body to find themselves the realm of Purgatory.

I loved this poem. The canto are short, three or four pages in length. It was easy to read, and held my attention the whole way through. Though not to be interpreted as dogma; I found it interesting to get a renaissance perspective on what punishments await sinners in hell.