The Divine Comedy

Here are, among laments of pain and anger, the "people who lived without glory or infamy", mixed with angels who did not rebel against God, but not out of loyalty, but to avoid the consequences of taking sides in the fight Between good and bad. Heaven rejects them because they did nothing good and hell also, because they did nothing wrong. Their torment is that no one remembers them, they have no hope of dying and they have nothing to do in their poor life, scorned both by justice and by compassion. Dante is condemning here, in particular, his compatriots who, unlike him, avoided taking sides in the political conflicts of their time, putting their well-being before the good of their city.Hell is a huge conical valley and is divided into nine levels or circles, each deeper and narrower than the last. To get there, you have to cross the Aqueronte river, and the souls do it in Charon's boat.