I just read The Inferno by Dante a while ago, and I wondered how do we know he was telling the truth if the only way to be there is to die?
2007-01-28 11:00:55 · 9 answers · asked by go UCLA bruins! 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Dante doesn't claim to tell the truth in "The Inferno." It is fiction. Not Hell, but the description of it.
2007-01-28 11:04:48 · answer #1 · answered by jcboyle 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think he knew what he was talking about?
Read 'A Divine Revelation of Hell'. by Mary K. Baxter
See if it agrees with Dante.
2007-01-28 11:05:09 · answer #2 · answered by up y 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's superstition. But in the dark Middle Ages the people believed it.
2007-01-28 11:15:26 · answer #3 · answered by wolf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The poem is complete fiction. It is paganism dressed in Christan clothes.
2007-01-28 11:05:22 · answer #4 · answered by Sophist 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Personal opinion, folktales, mythology and the imagination.
His anti-Islamic sections are pretty rude and offensive.
2007-01-28 11:04:28 · answer #5 · answered by darth_maul_8065 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He didn't. That's why it's called fiction.
2007-01-28 11:17:53 · answer #6 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's fiction; He made it up.
2007-01-28 11:05:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
He had been to Death Valley, California.
2007-01-28 11:04:39 · answer #8 · answered by guitarjas 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
because he lived
2007-01-28 11:05:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋