books.google.co.uk - Dante's Inferno is often presented today in lurid 'gothic' terms as if it were no more than an entertaining demonic freak-show. Alternately, it is taken as merely a cultural and political commentary on Dante's own place and time, cast in allegorical terms. But the Inferno, and the Divine Comedy as a...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Dark_Way_to_Paradise.html?id=RnhlOrCgf-UC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareDark Way to Paradise