ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The story begins with Dante getting lost in the woods on Maundy Thursday. He intends to climb a mountain but encounters three wild beasts who threaten him; as he wonders what to do, Virgil, the author of the Latin epic Aeneid, appears.

Detailed explanation-2: -The World of Dante. Dante’s Inferno, widely hailed as one of the great classics of Western literature, details Dante’s journey through the nine circles of Hell. The voyage begins during Easter week in the year 1300, the descent through Hell starting on Good Friday.

Detailed explanation-3: -The time was at the beginning of the morning, and the sun was mounting up with all those stars, that were with him when Divine Love first moved all delightful things, so that the hour of day, and the sweet season, gave me fair hopes of that creature with the bright pelt.

Detailed explanation-4: -A poem in thirty-four cantos, set in Hell in 1300; written in Italy between 1307 and 1314. Written during Dante’s exile from Florence, Inferno maps Hell, which, according to the narrative, contains many of Dante’s political rivals, as well as wrongdoers from many periods of history.