Dante then awakes in the third circle, where the Gluttonous sinners suffer under a cold and filthy rain. Dante speaks to the soul of Francesca da Rimini, a woman who was stuck in a loveless, arranged marriage and committed adultery when she fell in love with a dashing youth named Paolo. In the second circle, lustful sinners are tossed around by endless storms. Virgil resides here, along with a bunch of other Greek and Roman poets. The first circle of Hell (Limbo), considered pre-Hell, just contains all of the unbaptized and good people born and before the coming of Christ, who obviously couldn’t be saved by him. For the rest of the Inferno, Virgil takes Dante on a guided tour of Hell, through all its nine circles and back up into the air of the mortal world. And voila! Virgil to the rescue! He’s an appropriate guide because he’s very much like Dante, a fellow writer and famous poet. When asked why in hell (pun intended) he came, Virgil answers that the head honchos of Heaven-the Virgin Mary and Santa Lucia-felt sorry for Dante and asked the deceased love-of-Dante’s-life, Beatrice, to send someone down to help him. Just as three wild animals threaten to attack him, Dante is rescued by the ghost of Virgil, a celebrated Roman poet and also Dante’s idol. The Inferno follows the wanderings of the poet Dante as he strays off the rightful and straight path of moral truth and gets lost in a dark wood.
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