Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno
- Date of account
- Early 14th century, composed approximately 1308–1321
- Location
- Imagined Hell beneath Jerusalem and within a medieval Christian cosmos
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Dante’s Inferno follows the pilgrim Dante and Virgil through a meticulously organized Hell populated by mythological, historical, biblical, and contemporary figures. Its importance for folklore comparison lies in the synthesis of classical katabasis, Christian judgment, political commentary, and medieval cosmography. The poem is an authored theological and poetic construction, not a claimed documentary expedition. Researchers should distinguish Dante’s inventions from inherited materials and track how later visual, literary, and popular traditions reinterpreted particular punishments and inhabitants.
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