Introduction to Dante’s Inferno

Introduction to Dante’s Inferno

Over the last few years, one great book has continued to haunt my thoughts, through the appalling failures of the Covid pandemic, and in much of what has happened since: Dante Alighieri’s narrative poem, The Divine Comedy, in particular its first and best-known part, Inferno (Hell). It’s a book I’d like to see on the desk of every head of state and leader, to guide their thoughts and decision-making. After the Bible and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, The…