Not exactly. The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–21) is a long narrative poem by Italian poet Dante that consists of three major sections, of which the Inferno is the first. The other two sections are Purgatorio and Paradiso. The full poem traces Dante’s fictional journey from darkness to divine light, culminating in the Beatific Vision of God. In the Inferno section he is guided through Hell by the shade of the Roman poet Virgil. This section features Dante’s famous depiction of Hell as an underworld divided into nine circles, each representing specific sins, such as gluttony and wrath, with gruesome punishments corresponding to the nature of the sins.
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