There are 34 cantos with about 140 verses each. Look at a matrix that mixes the organization of hell, as classes and as subclasses of sins. The Divine Comedy is Dante's greatest work. This work waswritten in 1310 and was completed shortly before Dante's death in 1321. The work is a narrative poem fully planned within symmetry and algebraic logic.The story tells Dante's Odyssey goes through the 3 spiritual planes: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. Dante is guided by the Roman poet Virgil. The story begins when Dante finds himself lost in a dark and frightening forest because his life has failed to go the right way. After some attempts to escape, Virgilappears to Dante at the behest of Beatriz, who descended from the heavens to limbo to ask Virgil for help and proposes a different route.
The Divine Comedy is characterized by a very strong moralizing meaning, the reaffirmation of Christian principles and the desire for spiritual renewal. Its narrative strength lies in Dante's sfirmness of character as a character in dealing with some of the most fundamental questions of the human condition. Even in the face of the greatest challenges, the poet follows with conviction his belief in the existence of eternal life and that which would be the purpose of our existence: the pursuit of union with God through purification. Hell is divided into 9 circles; each circle corresponds to sin and how the sinner will suffer throughout his eternity. Hell grows deeper with each circle and more punishments are performed. The dead are tortured by hundreds of demons, obscure objects, forces of nature and situations that affect the spiritual and mental body. The ninth and last circle of Hell is reserved for traitors. It has large fluttering wings, feeding the freezing winds of Hell's ninth level. This wind represents the exhalation of all evil in the world.
The souls who were traitors to their masters are kept there, trapped in blocks of ice. Lucifer stands in the middle of the level, where all the rivers of guilt flow. He flaps his wings to escape, but the freezing wind freezes him even more in place. Lucifer has three faces. In his mouth, he chews Judas, Brutus, and Cassius, all eternal traitors to their masters who trusted them. Virgil and Dante watch the horrible sight and begin to rise through the center, rising over Satan himself, where they pass through the center of the earth's gravity and out of Hell. The Mount of Purgatory appears before them, and they go on, unwilling to waste time. To sum up, The Divine Comedy makes people realize that while the church exercised state power and that Christian morality classified behavior and thinking, theoretician religious guidelines were based on classical culture. Thus, we have a situation in which the'scientific' conception of the world was grounded in Aristotle; part of Christian conceptions in Plato. I can understand Dante's work as a summary of the conceptions of the Middle Ages.