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The first book of [[Dante]]'s trilogy, ''The Divine Comedy,'' about his imagined trip to Hell.  It is very frightening. According to Dante, the inscription at the entrance to Hell reads "All hope abandon ye who enter here."

Do not question authority - question everything. The first book of [[Dante]]'s trilogy, ''The Divine Comedy,'' about his imagined trip to Hell.  It is very frightening. According to Dante, the inscription at the entrance to Hell reads "All hope abandon ye who enter here."

A 2002 best-selling mystery novel by Matthew Pearl, ''The Dante Club,'' is a piece of historical fiction set in Boston in 1865. It is based partly on real events; the Dante Club was real, the mystery story is not. At the time, not many people in the United States knew Italian or Dante's work. A group of writers formed a club to translate Dante's work and promote his importance. Three of them were [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], [[Oliver Wendell Holmes]], and [[James Russell Lowell]]. Like Dante's work itself, it has frightening and gruesome scenes, but is rich in historical background.

A 2002 best-selling mystery novel by Matthew Pearl, ''The Dante Club,'' is a piece of historical fiction set in Boston in 1865. It is based partly on real events; the Dante Club was real, the mystery story is not. At the time, not many people in the United States knew Italian or Dante's work. A group of writers formed a club to translate Dante's work and promote his importance. Three of them were [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], [[Oliver Wendell Holmes]], and [[James Russell Lowell]]. Like Dante's work itself, it has frightening and gruesome scenes, but is rich in historical background.