Hell, as Dante described it, consists of nine concentric ... For the Devil, it's always a cold day in hell. Even for Milton, beyond the fire plains of Hell there are regions of ice, hail, snow ...

The worlds of DanteThe poet Dante holds a copy of his Divine Comedy, with hell and purgatory forming the background to this 15th-century fresco by Domenico di Michelino. The heavenly spheres arch ...

He abandoned friendship with God for a reward that was cold and lifeless, and so too was his ultimate end. Dante’s vision of hell, according to my high school English teacher, is one in which ...

How can hell run both hot and cold? Not until late antiquity did the ... By the time we get to Dante, we have a multistoried hell of epic proportions. These stories might be nightmarish to us ...

Dante Alighieri, the man who gave us our vision of hell can be seen for the first time in almost 700 years, after his face was recreated using his skull by scientists. With his writings ...