Classics Summarized: Dante's Inferno

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For this week's venture into literature, we take a broad look at The Inferno. Hold onto your butts.

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[howdypardner]

I love how this book is a huge self-insert fanfic with the attitude of "I went to hell, and guess who was there? The Pope!" and now it's a classic

[npc]

reminder that in dante's times "comedy" only meant "not a tragedy"

[KLLR_RCD]

Greek dude: exists

Dante: *bippity bell now go to hell*

[anxiouspaw]

To be clear, he never actually talked with this "girlfriend of his", nor did she acknowledge him at all in real life, Dante just thought she looked really cute and wanted to get with her.

[Nightfire]

Pope/Greek Hero: exists
Dante: *I diagnose you with Hell*

[phoenixmeth]

dude turned a wattpad story into an all time literature masterpiece

[FirstLast-cgnk]

So to all of you fanfiction writers, don't be afraid to keep writing. Who knows, maybe one day your fanfic will become the foundation of a major religion's perception of the afterlife, like Dante's was.

[DavideCosmaro]

Ooh, so when teenage girls ship themselves with their idol and write stories about them being together it's "trash", but when Dante does it it's "the pinnacle of literature" and "a work of art"

Edit: y'all need to understand what a joke is or get out of YouTube

[bear]

Dante writing Achilles into the lustful circle of hell in his self-insert fanfic about the girl he met once is honestly so ironic

[thanatoast]

Dante's Inferno A.K.A. Dante and Virgil's excellent adventure.

[Glace]

If Dante can write self-insert fanfiction and become a legend for it then by God so can I

[Amanda-znox]

Dante wrote a fanfiction where he went on a symbolic journey with a guy who wrote a fanfiction about the Trojan War? We're getting into multiple layers here.

[donnamitsuki]

"yuck, you write self-insert? So. Much. Cringe!!"
Dante: *literally writes how he hangs around with his favorite poet of all time and even meets people he always wanted to met*
-had to-

[jackiedim]

Avengers Endgame is the most ambitious crossover in history.

Dante Alligheri: Hold my wine

[oom]

>commits suicide because of suffering
>still suffers in hell
OHNONONONONO

[_fedmar_]

Virgil: "So here we are at the city of Dis."
Dante: "Why's it called Dis?"
Virgil: "DIS NUTS!"

[eden]

"inferno" just means "hell" in italian, so it's not strictly about the fire

[lunaequinox]

A self-insert fanfic that becomes a literary classic?
This dude's my new idol

[nikki]

"Reading the book wasn't too quick either"
At least you get to read a translation. Let me tell you a secret: Italian High School students (including bu not limited to myself) do not. We get the pleasure of having to comb through the original. And that shit might as well be a different lanuage for all I know because Florentine is closer to Latin than it is to Italian -.-

[crimsonstone]

Fun Fact: My marching band went to state with a show based on Dante's Inferno, Pergatory, and Paradise. I got to scream at the top of my lungs during the Inferno feature and say the classic "ABANDON HOPE! ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE!" At the beginning of the Inferno act.