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The Book

My book, AFTERLIFE - AN INTRODUCTION TO DANTE’S INFERNO is now available for Kindle on Amazon.  It contains significantly extended chapters and many new beautiful and amazing images not on this webpage.  Click the Amazon link below and take a look!

Cato

We immediately see that Purgatory is very different from Hell.  Dante describes the sky as the color of sapphire with pure, calm air.  However Dante and Virgil don’t have time to enjoy the view, as soon as they look around they are greeted by an old man with a long white beard.  This [...]

The Shores of Purgatory

Dante and Virgil emerge from Hell and get their first glimpse of Purgatory. It is an island dominated by a steep mountain, but unlike Inferno, has day and night, as well as beauty and color. It is the world of the purification of souls, and while all the souls are enduring suffering, there is now [...]

Dante’s Inferno - Summary

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Gate of Hell - Cowards who refused to take a stand for or against God
Forever running and getting stung by wasps.

Circle one - Limbo
Virtuous pagans, Virgil,  Plato.  Unfulfilled desire and hopelessness.

Circle two - The lustful
Francesa and Paolo. Cleopatra. Eternally being swirled in [...]

Encounter with Satan

As Dante and Virgil continue to walk, they see sinners now completely encased in the ice.  They are frozen alive for eternity in various contortions and positions, unable to even speak.  In the distance Dante sees what looks to him like a windmill.  As they get closer, they see it is Satan, flapping his bat-like [...]