Dante's Inferno by Dante

Dante's Inferno is a poem that is profoundly medieval and profoundly renaissance. As this poem was written during the middle ages, there are plenty of medieval qualities throughout the poem. The medieval qualities in this poem are that this poem is very narrow-minded. Without questioning, Dante puts souls in Hell where they should be, because they should be there. Never does he question, I liked this person, should he or she really be there? For …

…are, not as they should be." Everything in hell is the way it should be, and never does Dante let his own thoughts or views come into the way, while writing about hell. For example, he puts one of his own party members and closest friends, Brunetto Latini as well as his own relative into hell, although in his opinion they may be decent men or he may be fond of them and love them.