Dante\'s Inferno is often presented today in lurid \'gothic\' terms as if it were no more than an entertaining demonic freak-show.
The human passions, and the Mystery of Iniquity of which they are expressions, are fundamentally the same in any place and time; the Inferno presents not so much a.
But the Inferno, and the Divine Comedy as a whole, are much more than that.
Alternately, it is taken as merely a cultural and political commentary on Dante\'s own place and time, cast in allegorical terms.
Dante\'s Inferno is often presented today in lurid \'gothic\' terms as if it were no more than an entertaining demonic freak-show