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Hello, everyone, welcome to the Solitary Reading. Today, in the Solitary Reading, we have prepared Dante's Inferno, which is considered an immortal classic. *This video includes my personal views and commentary on the work, and deals with excerpts from the text. Dante's Divine Comedy is a story about Dante traveling through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, the afterlife, with the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil and Beatrice, his lover from his youth, and meeting various people. Through this, we examine the Christian faith and ethical philosophy of the time. Among them, in the Inferno that we will read today, the afterlife hell is described as having nine levels. The first level, Limbo (Byeok), is a place where good people who have not been baptized, such as ancient people, people of other religions, and babies, go. They are not punished, but they cannot see God. Virgil, whom Dante first meets, also says that he arrived in Limbo because he died before God was born. The second level of hell, Lust, is said to be where those who indulge in lust or commit adultery go, the third level of hell, Greed, the fourth level of hell, Wrath, the sixth level of hell, Heresy, the seventh level of hell, Violence, the eighth level of hell, Fraud, and the final ninth level of hell, Betrayal. Dante's Divine Comedy had a great influence on all subsequent works dealing with Christian hell. Dante's Divine Comedy is evaluated as a literary work that summarizes Western Christian civilization, focusing on the issues of God's providence and salvation, and human free will in dealing with Him. The scope of the work is also wide, covering almost all fields related to human life and knowledge, from art and literature to history, legends, philosophy, politics, and astronomy. As a result, Dante has come to occupy the highest position in Western literature, alongside Homer, the author of Iliad, Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, and Shakespeare, the author of Hamlet. The German philosopher Engels said that the end of the feudal Middle Ages and the beginning of modern capitalism can be marked by a great person. That person is Dante. He is the last of the poets and the first of the modern poets. And Michelangelo expressed his respect for Dante by saying that among the people who walked the earth, there was no one greater than Dante. Yes, then let's briefly meet Dante's representative epic, the Divine Comedy, at today's Solitary Reading. *All readings at Solitary Reading are secondary works read with the permission of the copyright holder (publisher). Publisher- Feeling Book Author- Dante Alighieri Translator- Kang Mi-kyung 00:00 Work Description 03:40 Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno #Dante's Divine Comedy #Divine ComedyAudiobook #TheManWhoReadsBooks