Dante's Reconciliation of a Loving God and a Horrific Hell Dante Alighieri, a great Italian poet, is most noted for a journey, which he wrote of in his Divine Comedy series. In these works, Alighieri sends a fictional Dante through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. The Inferno is a detailed description of Dante's journey through Hell. While on this journey, Dante witnesses the scourge of the damned through the use of all senses. He smells the foul odors, sees the horrifying sights, feels the heat, as well as the cold, and hears the overwhelming cries of all sinners. Ironically, the purpose of this journey is to expose Dante to Hell so that he will spend et