For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been read as a moral and spiritual descent, a journey into sin, punishment, and divine justice. Timothy Burbery of Marshall University now argues that the ...

The Divine Comedy” is divided into the “Inferno,” “Purgatorio,” and “Paradiso.” Simply put, Burbery argues that Dante’s ...

Dante's Inferno describes Hell as a vast, inverted conical pit beneath the Earth's surface, narrowing downward through nine concentric circles toward a frozen core. According to the study, this ...

Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks of an impact, forming a multi-ringed crater with a central peak.

Ancient and medieval narratives, in other words, may preserve ways of imagining disaster that later become scientifically legible. The original story “ Dante’s Inferno suggests Hell and Purgatory ...