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In the epic, Dante expressed his political views and speculated about his adversaries' fate. Dante intended to also illustrate his journey after leaving Florence behind in writing the Inferno, as well as give insight into the atmosphere of Italian politics in the middle of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th.
It is Gustave Dore's work that contains some of the best images of Dante's Inferno. Instead of watching the story unfold on a screen, you get to decide how it will play out in your mind when you read the book. My impression of Dante's Inferno is that it is extremely dark. In contrast to other artists such as William Blake, Dore's illustrations are dramatic, intense, and detailed. As Dante focused on punishment for sin, Dore also depicts the characters of the Inferno as suffering varying punishments. A sense of the darkness and danger of sins and punishments that Dante discusses is conveyed by Dore's illustrations of Dante's Inferno.
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