The first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy , revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery 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 agoni.