"Inferno is a fourteenth-century allegorical story, written as a poem, relating Dante's fictional travels through the nine circles of Hell. Dante outlines moral truths by explaining what he learns in each circle - Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, Treachery - with the help of his Guide, the poet, Virgil. This is the first part of a three-part story, the second being Purgatorio, and the third being Paradiso"--