Inferʹno

We have Dante’s notion of the infernal regions in his Inferno; Homer’s in the Odyssey, book xi.; Virgil’s in the Æneid, book vi.; Spenser’s in the Faërie Queene, book ii. canto 7; Ariosto’s in the Orlando Furioʹso, book xvii.; Tasso’s in Jerusalem Delivered, book iv.; Milton’s in Paradise Lost; Fénelon’s in Télémaque, book xviii.; and Beckford’s in his romance of Vathek.