Dante for Fun – Hell

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265.
He actively participated in the political life of the city and in 1301,
as a result of the con ict between Guelphs and Ghibellines, was
condemned to two years of exile. In 1307 he began the most important
work of his life, the Divine Comedy, an epic poem that describes
Dante’s journey through the kingdom of the afterlife, rstly with
the guidance of Virgil, then Beatrice and nally of St. Bernard.