Dante’s Inferno, the first section of his long narrative poem The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–21), has inspired many other writers and artists such as William Blake, Auguste Rodin, and Salvador Dalí, influenced music such as Giacomo Puccini’s comic opera Gianni Schiacchi (1918), and is referenced in modern works such as Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel American Psycho. The Divine Comedy, and the Inferno in particular, with its famous “circles of Hell,” also shaped people’s ideas about the afterlife.
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