ID: 901001090 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001090	Record Type: Literature

	Inferno (poem, Dante, 1308/1321)

Note: Poem about Hell, Dante and Virgil travel from the dark wood through the descending circles of the pit of Hell (Inferno) and those punished there. Passing Lucifer at the pit’s bottom, at the dead-center of the world, Dante and Virgil emerge on the beach of the island mountain of Purgatory.

Display Date: 1308/1321

Names:

	Inferno (poem, Dante, 1308/1321) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
	Inferno (poem, Dante, 1308/1321) (Italian-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: Poetry> (P)
		............Divine Comedy, The (narrative poem, Dante, ca. 1308-1321) (I)
		................Inferno (poem, Dante, 1308/1321) (P)

Related Iconography:

	has as location .... Hell
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Christian iconography, Christian legendary places, Hell (Christian legendary place)) [901000384]

Other Relationships:

	author is .... Dante Alighieri (Italian poet, theorist, and philosopher, 1265-1321)
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	role/characteristic is .... poem
	.....(poetry and poems, genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	topic is .... hell (doctrinal concept)
	.....(doctrinal concepts, religious concepts, religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Inferno (poem, Dante, 1308/1321)
	................ICCD database (1988-)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy#/media/File:Gustave_Dor%C3%A9_-_Dante_Alighieri_-_Inferno_-_Plate_9_(Canto_III_-_Charon).jpg