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hell with a floor plan, drawn by a poet holding a personal grudge
means A large, fierce, destructive fire — or by extension any scene of overwhelming heat and chaos.
from From the Italian inferno, 'hell,' which descends from Late Latin infernus, 'the lower regions, the underworld,' itself from Latin inferus, 'below.' The word's modern fire-and-brimstone weight owes much to Dante, whose Inferno mapped Hell circle by circle in the early 1300s; English borrowed the term and gradually let it slide from the literal underworld to any blaze hot enough to feel like it.
- dante's design
- Nine descending circles, each sin worse than the last
- frozen core
- Hell's deepest point is ice, not flame
- opening line
- Begins lost in a dark wood, midlife
- real enemies
- Dante placed political rivals inside, by name
- final word
- Ends on stelle, the stars
dante's inferno — 14th-century italian epic poem, first part of the divine comedy, describing circles of hell
dante alighieri's hell — the literary work written by dante around 1308-1320, depicting 9 circles of damnation