# Dante's Hel

_In proza overgebracht en met een inleiding voorzien_

By Dante Alighieri.

"Dante's Hel" by Dante Alighieri is the first part of a 14th-century narrative poem. A fictionalized Dante, guided by the Roman poet Virgil, journeys through Hell's nine concentric circles. Each circle holds souls punished according to their sins—violence, fraud, betrayal—in torments that mirror their earthly transgressions. As allegory, this descent represents the soul's recognition and rejection of sin on its path toward God. The journey begins in a dark wood and leads through increasingly wicked realms toward Earth's center. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: Dutch
- Translator: H. J. Boeken
- Subjects: Hell; Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into Dutch; Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into Dutch

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