ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315828060/49546f0e-ce84-4e70-9b40-7107f16ee305/content/ufig_t_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>O do justice to this stupendous poem would require a book of several volumes, which would be quite out of place in this work. All that we can do here is to give the barest outline of the Inferno as envisaged by Dante, remembering that this is only one portion of his work, and that the Purgatory and Paradise are also parts of the same journey. It is important, however, to note the period of earthly time which is said to have elapsed while Dante was making his journey through the three worlds. It is supposed to begin on Good Friday, note the day, in 1300 A.D., when Dante was 35 years old, and it ends in Heaven on the first Sunday after Easter, making ten days in all, which facts should be compared with the ten days which the Hung boat takes to journey from the Black Dragon Mountain to the Isle of the Blest.
