Classics Summarized: Dante's Inferno 

dude turned a wattpad story into an all time literature masterpiece

I love how this book is a huge self-insert fanfic with the attitude of "I went to hell, and guess who was there? The Pope!" and now it's a classic

Pope/Greek Hero: exists Dante: *I diagnose you with Hell*

Dante wrote a fanfiction where he went on a symbolic journey with a guy who wrote a fanfiction about the Trojan War? We're getting into multiple layers here.

reminder that in dante's times "comedy" only meant "not a tragedy"

Greek dude: exists Dante: *bippity bell now go to hell*

Dante's Inferno A.K.A. Dante and Virgil's excellent adventure.

Ooh, so when teenage girls ship themselves with their idol and write stories about them being together it's "trash", but when Dante does it it's "the pinnacle of literature" and "a work of art" Edit: y'all need to understand what a joke is or get out of RU-vid

If Dante can write self-insert fanfiction and become a legend for it then by God so can I

>commits suicide because of suffering >still suffers in hell OHNONONONONO

Dante writing Achilles into the lustful circle of hell in his self-insert fanfic about the girl he met once is honestly so ironic

To be clear, he never actually talked with this "girlfriend of his", nor did she acknowledge him at all in real life, Dante just thought she looked really cute and wanted to get with her.

About the gluttons; what's raining on them isn't water, it's puke. And they're also up to their knees in literal crap. Fun fact: it is also the worst smelling circle of hell!

So to all of you fanfiction writers, don't be afraid to keep writing. Who knows, maybe one day your fanfic will become the foundation of a major religion's perception of the afterlife, like Dante's was.

A self-insert fanfic that becomes a literary classic? This dude's my new idol

Fun Fact: My marching band went to state with a show based on Dante's Inferno, Pergatory, and Paradise. I got to scream at the top of my lungs during the Inferno feature and say the classic "ABANDON HOPE! ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE!" At the beginning of the Inferno act.

"yuck,you write self-insert? So. Much. Cringe!!" Dante: *literally writes how he hangs around with his favorite poet of all time and even meets people he always wanted to met* -had to-

"inferno" just means "hell" in italian, so it's not strictly about the fire

Dante's Inferno, a self insert fanfic by a guy who wanted to go on an adventure with his senpai.

Virgil: "So here we are at the city of Dis." Dante: "Why's it called Dis?" Virgil: "DIS NUTS!"

I feel like some parts may have been missed. Such as in the circle of lust it wasn't simply just a bunch of wind but think of the worst hurricane you can ever imagine. Bodies being thrown everywhere and twisted and crushed within the cocytus. And as for gluttony it was not just simply rain but the bodies more bloated and festering in pools of their own filth and feces as they were continuously ripped apart by Cerberus only to reform in these infected pools to have it happen again and again and again. A little more than just rain.

"Well known religious founder? Me: Wait which one is it- "Who I'm not allowed to draw" Me: Oh.

"Only part of Hell is actually on fire at any given time, and _the worst bits are rather more chilling..."_ That pun is treacherous.

“Pretty dense read” That’s an understatement, I read this book back in high school. It felt like reading a brick.

To be honest, this is the most entertaining interpretation of Dante's Inferno I have ever seen. Favorite part of it was Limbo. He's like a fan going to a con and seeing all the fandoms there before getting dragged off into reality after closing time.

I've committed multiple sins. Good luck fitting me into a circle.

"Reading the book wasn't too quick either" At least you get to read a translation. Let me tell you a secret: Italian High School students (including bu not limited to myself) do not. We get the pleasure of having to comb through the original. And that shit might as well be a different lanuage for all I know because Florentine is closer to Latin than it is to Italian -.-

I can’t even begin to describe how much I just love Dante’s inferno, like it really is a self insert fic but tells us SO much about attitudes and opinions of the time. It’s crazy

STABLE jobs Get it? Because their bottom halves are horses I've sinned

"VIRGIL SEMPAI IM YOUR BIGGEST FAN!" -Dante

For those wondering about the well-known religious figure that she couldn’t draw...........It was Mohammad

It is pretty wild that Dante assigned the severity of betraying Caesar as an equal sin to betraying the literal son of God.

Blasphemy: *burning* Treachery: *freezing* Just blaspheme after you betray someone, the sins cancel out in hell, it’s simple math right guys?

This is ten times funnier if you imagine Virgil and Dante as Vergil and Dante from Devil May Cry

11:56 "And I gotta say, that is a pretty hefty punishment for two dudes whose only crime was stabbing an old guy in a fancy hat." Don't let Blue hear you say that!

I love the part where dante turns his head into a clock

Cotton candy heaven? More like Dentist’s Inferno. i will now die

A 100 years from now, people might actually analyse the fanfics that we've written now. This is scary.

Politicians would love the eight circle of hell, all that oil.

The Divine Comedy is basically Dante’s headcanon about how all the bullies and people he disliked would end up suffering for eternity and that Dante himself would go on super sick adventures with his idols. The man was the OG 14 year old edge lord.

The centaurs have STABLE jobs, do they?

*Goes to Proverbial Suicide Forest in Hell* *Takes out vlogging camera*

“The seventh circle is actually pretty cheerful from the get go, full of friendly centaurs who aren’t even getting punished for anything. They’re holding down STABLE jobs...” the pun is strong with this one lol

limbus company.. limbus company.. GARION! AH SHIT HERE WE GO AGAIN

heyyy "Dante's Inferno: Historically-acclaimed revenge fic" would be really good on a shirt if you have a next round

Avengers Endgame is the most ambitious crossover in history. Dante Alligheri: Hold my wine

“Personal self-insert historical crackfic” That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Classics essay done.

The greed one makes sense to me, as the boulders are (as I recall) sized in proportion to the fortunes they hoarded. They spent their lives building up useless wealth, and now their obsession is a) the sole focus/task of their afterlives, and b) difficult to bear in proportion to their efforts in life.

So the third circle is basically the UK

Virgil: Dante? Dante: Uh-huh? Virgil: You know that little voice that people have that tells them to *not* stop and banter with every rando when travelling through Hell itself? YOU DON'T HAVE ONE!!

"essentially self insert fanfiction" Thank you, 6+ years ago I told my English teacher this and she almost threw me out of class.

I wonder how Dante feels knowing that in a video game franchise, a character named after him is brothers with Vergil.

Fun fact: if you are italian, chances are ( Like, 99% ) you actually STUDIED and analyzed the entire comedy like me, because is mandatory in high school. You will be surprised to know that yes, it is the biggest fanfiction ever written, but surprisingly Dante points out that for him too some of these judgment are extremely harsh, and his constant fainting is because he’s scared shitless that he belongs in 5 or 6 places he describes. Overall, the Inferno is actually an interesting read, and all the punishments are meant to be symbolic, as they are based on fitting the sin.

I never really understood why you state that "Inferno" is a weird title. It's just the translation of Hell in italian, so... Also! The reason why Gluttony is punished by laying face down in mud is because the sinners had, in life, enjoyed only the finest of cusine to an unholy degree, and now they are forced to only eat mud for eternity. Similarly, in the greed circle those who had spent their entire lifetime accumulating wealth, which is useless in the afterlife, are now sentenced to pursue a similarly pointless and tiring endeavor, aka pushing rocks around.

*Self-Insert Historical Crack Fic* Best thing I've ever heard a book be called.

This can be a really good premise for the next Devil may Cry. Dante and Vergil exploring through the 9 circles preventing the Escape of Satan while constantly arguing / battling each other just to prove who is the strongest.

Since I haven't found anyone else mentioning it; one thing you skipped over was that the frozen lake was made due to the tears of the damned which were then chilled by the winds from the frantic beating of Satan's wings. And he was too stupid to realize that it was his stubborn escape attempt was the primary thing keeping him imprisoned.

Fun fact: Virgil gets triggered for Dante's pity on magician's partly because back in Dante's time some people used Virgil's book for predicting future as sort of a party game. Ergo, Virgil could've ended up in lower part of hell for something that he didn't actually do.

What's interesting about Dante's treatment of Muhammed, is that he places him among the schismists, rather than the false prophets. And seems to rate Saladin and other Muslim leaders as among the rightous pagans. This suggests to them, that Christians of this era may have felt more kinship with the Muslims of that Era than modern Christians do with modern Muslims. Dante at least, seemed to consider Islam to be a schisming sect of Christianity, rather than a rival religion in its own right, and apparently didn't think Muslims in general were that bad, merely reviling it's founder for splitting off from the mother church, rather than founding a fresh religion. I find that interesting. Still problematic. But fascinatingly more nuanced than "Die Filthy Heretic" you'd expect...

In Hell We Live, Lament.

By the by, for those curious, the full encryption on the Gates of Hell: I am the way into the city of woe, I am the way to a forsaken people, I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!

"Dante passes out from the awkwardness" I get that

Oh I get it. When Dante writes a self-insert, it’s “classic literature” and “taught in schools,” but when I do it, it’s “cringey” and I “need to stop.”

0:18 actually the word "inferno" is perfectly appropriate because it just means "the lower regions" (like "inferior"), and the connotation of fire is because of the stereotype of hell.

"Diet Hell" I CHOKED

Subscribed for "Virgil-senpai."

When I read the inferno in class, we had a lot of fun in my group laughing about Dante passing out all the time. And the slightly homoerotic moment when Virgil was carrying Dante and Dante was singing to him. .......Then we had to draw the levels of hell on a poster board and my group being artists made it into an awesome 'Where's Waldo' type of project with a Batpole and various other silly things hiding around for people in other classes to find. Good memories.

On this one video I’ve seen comments from the DMC fandom, the Ultrakill fandom, and the Limbus Company fandom. Truly, this is a timeless work of literature

Late to the party, but... 10:22, if you're considering the Odyssey, please consider also that Dante knew OF it, but hadn't actually READ it. Most Greek literature was unavailable in the West at the time, and very few (educated) people would know how to read greek, anyway. Those works started to flow into Italy during the Renaissance, about a century after Dante's death, courtesy of Byzantine scholars fleeing the (about to be conquered) Byzantine Empire. Dante was stuck with Latin literature and, wouldn't you know, it painted a not so flattering picture of Greeks, especially concerning the Trojan War.

dante: okay so there's heaven, hell, and purgatory people: *procced to only care about hell*

For how bitter you make Dante out to be, your art makes him out to be a precious potato

Everytime I hear Vergil’s name I start feeling motivated.

THAT WAS AMAZING I HAVE LITERALLY BEEN LOOKING ALL DAY FOR A MOVIE RENDITION OF DANTE'S INFERNO TO USE IN A VIDEO THING I HAVE FOR ENGLISH CLASS AND THIS IS UTTER PERFECTION CAN I USE THIS PLEASE

The Divine Comedy *Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series*

You forgot the guy Dante meets in the 9th circle where Dante's like, "What are you doing down here? You're still alive on earth!" And the guy's like, "Ah, yes. You see, I was so evil in life that a demon came up and possessed my body, and dragged my soul down to hell. "So you know that guy up there who Dante hates, and who's always doing political stuff that Dante doesn't like? That guy is a *literal devil.* Don't trust him."

i cant believe limbus company and ultrakill were so popular this dante guy made a fanfic about it

11:13 I like how, under "People who belong in Hell", Dante lists "Teacher" with a frowny face. As if to say, "I know he should technically be damned by my religion for all the sodomy, but he was still my teach, yo". It's kind of sweet, really.

>continuously reiterates that Dante is Roman >Draws him blonde

Why on earth wasn’t Achilles in the circle of the Wrathful and Sullen? If “wrathful and sullen” doesn’t perfectly describe Achilles I don’t know what does! Sullen means sulky. Achilles spends almost the whole book sulking in his tent refusing to fight. Then when Patroclus is killed he flies into a rage and defeats an entire army, not caring that he’s prophesied to die. The whole point of the story is his wrath. Here’s the real kicker though. What’s the punishment for the fifth circle? Being drowned in the river Styx. What more fitting a final place for Achilles could there be than the very place his story started? It’s like poetry.

dante: why do i hear… explosions? V1: BLOOD IS FUEL HELL IS FULL

Your understanding of Gluttony was a little off. The sinners were wallowing in muck and filth like pigs, and the rain was keeping the mud from drying. Great video otherwise though!

I am annoyed that not once in this "divine comedy" does Dante encounter Doom Guy.

Love how odysseus and diomedes are literally too tough for the fire to even hurt them

Danteh stop writing and revive the sinners

Okay I NEED a modern day equivalent to this were some guy gets dragged through hell by some random celebrity and sees a bunch of modern guys. Please please it neeeeeds to exist

I reread the inferno to find any justification for Odyesseus’s punishment and apparently he is in hell because he would rather travel the world for knowledge then spend time with his wife and child. Maybe that would make sense if the Odyssey wasn’t Odysseus journey to go back to his kingdom so he could reunite with his wife. Dante has the biggest bias.

0:00 Intro 0:27 Context ((1) Insert Fan Fiction (2) Dante was Roman, not a fan of the Greeks who destroyed Troy) 0:49 Our Story Opens... 1:13 Virgil 2:11 The First Circle of Hell: Limbo 2:44 The Second Circle of Hell: Windy and Dark (punishment for Lust) 3:20 The Third Circle of Hell: Rain for (Gluttony) 3:31 The Fourth Circle of Hell: Plutus, Rock Jousting 4:01 The Fifth Circle of Hell (a.k.a. The River Styx): Underwater Fist Fight 4:26 Dis, _The Fire City_ 4:59 The Sixth Circe of Hell: Fire Coffins 5:13 *The Seventh Circle of Hell* : The Violent (Blasphemers or Defial Nature) *River of Blood* 6:14 Suicide Forest 6:32 Middle of the 7th circle: Desert that rains fire 6:48 *The Eighth Circle of Hell* : For Fraud guys. (Jason of the Argonauts) 7:23 Simony 7:46 *Deeper In The Eighth Circle* : Men with heads on backwards. Tiresias. 8:12 Boiling Tar For Politicians 9:06 Hippocrits wear Gilded Cloaks 9:18 Giant Pit of Magical Snakes. For Thieves 9:46 More Fraud punishment 10:08 Greeks burning (Sorry Odysseus) 10:25 Sewers of discord get chopped into pieces 10:43 Alchemists get Sick 10:58 *_The Ninth Circle of Hell_* Traitors , Kokytos River, Lucifer frozen 11:45 3 heads 12:03 Into Purgatory

*BURY THE LIGHT DEEP WITHIN!!* In another mirror world: "Danteh... I'll help you get Beatrice, Danteh..." -RedGaze

6:43 "Not exactly the straightest crayon in the box" I love it.

Achilles being like 'uhh.... this isnt really my kind of party' while he hangs out with Paris and a lot of very pretty women is quite possible my favourite thing ever

“Next, Dante and Virgil come to a lake of boiling tar, reserved exclusively for that special, wicked breed of man..: POLITICIANS.” I actually laughed out loud at that 😂

LIMBUS COMPANYYYYY

Dante is the persona of all aggressive fangirls Holy crap IT'S STARKIT'S PROPHECY

8:54 that's why it's called the DIVINE COMEDY

I LOVE the Divine Comedy, but describing it as self-insert revenge fanfic is SO accurate!! While I absolutely see it as a masterpiece, I do think it hilarious that one of the greatest epics of Western literature includes the author assigning his contemporaries to hell or (eventual) heaven based on how much he liked them.

I pray that in a thousand years sarcastic summaries like these are done of the most famous fanfics of our day.

To be fair, Dante _does_ look like that weird kid in middle school who role-played as Goku's best friend and didn't have too many friends

Here is what that list of stuff that counts as defiling nature actually said. (Stuff in square brackets is things I’m not certain about, because it's hard to read) Things that count as defiling nature • Looking at a tree funny • Burning stuff • Tossing meteors around carelessly • Causing mass extinctions • If Groot isn’t your favorite guardian • Eating anything cute • Being a captain planet [villain] • Being a “disease” and/or “a cancer of this planet” • I’m rapidly running out of ideas, I think • Oh! If [Mryazaki] movies don’t stir your innermost soul • Seriously, [Nausicaa] though • Also totoro • Oh yeah, no carving your initials into stuff • That’ll put you in hell for SURE • Especially if that “stuff” is other people • Jesus, I made this [FNe? Does that mean anything? Maybe it says "thing" but it has too few letters] way too big • On that note, I think drawing chibi-Jesus might get me into some trouble • Ah, I’m sure he wouldn’t mind • I’m reading Aristotle right now. Dude’s super dry • Oh, right, nature • Uhhh • Clearcutting • Making a generic-looking native american cry • Making a bald eagle cry • LITTERING

Inferno is the Italian word for Hell, it has nothing to do with fire.

dantehh 🕘🕣⏰🕡