The inferno
The first portion of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic masterpiece Divine Comedy is titled Inferno, which means "Hell." Purgatorio and Paradiso come after it. Dante's journey through Hell is described in The Inferno, which is narrated by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. Hell is described in the poem as a series of nine concentric rings of pain within the Earth; it is the "realm of individuals who have abandoned spiritual principles by surrendering to bestial desires or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to deceit or enmity against their fellowmen."