Dante's epic in a sumptuous and delightful clothbound edition. Describing Dante's descent into
Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in
which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven
deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising torture
Dante encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas the liar Odysseus the suicide
Cleopatra and his own political enemies damned for their deceit. Led by leering demons the
poet must ultimately journey with Virgil to the deepest level of all. For it is only by
encountering Satan in the heart of Hell that he can truly understand the tragedy of sin.
