Classics Summarized: Dante's Inferno

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  • @howdypardner6278
    @howdypardner6278 4 года назад +8067

    I love how this book is a huge self-insert fanfic with the attitude of "I went to hell, and guess who was there? The Pope!" and now it's a classic

    • @andrewollmann304
      @andrewollmann304 4 года назад +245

      Well, Dante had a lot of thoughts about the political machinations of the pope in Florence. He was a Guelph, which means that he thought the pope shouldonly have authority in spiritual matters. Plus, that rant against greedy popes in Canto XIX is just so, so good.

    • @kricketgaming1250
      @kricketgaming1250 4 года назад +227

      lol actually she got that wrong. It is one of the misconceptions about dantes inferno. If you look at the book in detail you begin to realize that Dante puts his enemys is paradiso as well as inferno. Some of his heros are actaully in the inferno. She also got the part about Virgil wrong. Virgil was a hero of Dante, however, virgil really represents the most virtious pagan, Dante needed a pagan to lead him through hell as an angel would not understand hell as deeply as someone who is actaully in it. Therefore, Dante chose a virtious pagan to be his guide. The whole book is full of symbols that represent different ideas. That is why it is remarked to be the greatest piece of literature. This is not what Dante beileves hell looks like, rather it is a metaphor to show how bad sin is. Its a book full of cantropassos.

    • @andrewollmann304
      @andrewollmann304 4 года назад +29

      KricketGaming Okay...so which enemies did he put in the paradiso??

    • @emblemblade9245
      @emblemblade9245 4 года назад +83

      KricketGaming Ok but it’s still a self-insert

    • @andrewollmann304
      @andrewollmann304 4 года назад +25

      EmblemBlade9 Yup, and Dante is quite proud of that.

  • @npc6817
    @npc6817 4 года назад +12660

    reminder that in dante's times "comedy" only meant "not a tragedy"

    • @thecagedsong
      @thecagedsong 4 года назад +1146

      Comedy meant start bad end up good. While tragedy meant start good end bad. Since he ends up seeing God in Heaven, La Comedia! Shakespeare's plays follow the same tradition.

    • @sarahleonard4178
      @sarahleonard4178 4 года назад +312

      Comedies are also meant to poke fun at those who lack virtue and Dante certainly does that

    • @clockworkkirlia7475
      @clockworkkirlia7475 4 года назад +231

      @@thecagedsong Shakespeare also had a lot of jokes to be fair. They're hilarious, but only if you have a very very careful mix of sophistication (to understand the jokes) and utter teenaged crudeness (to find them funny).

    • @Silverwind87
      @Silverwind87 4 года назад +104

      @@clockworkkirlia7475 Shakespeare was essentially a comedic genius in his time. Puns, double entendres, the works.

    • @clockworkkirlia7475
      @clockworkkirlia7475 4 года назад +58

      @@Silverwind87 Oh very much so. If a basic understanding of the language is there (thank you Robert Burns) then a lot of it still holds up to a basic level. Obviously a lot of the cultural in-jokes don't carry so well nowadays; for instance, "a rose by any other name" and "all the world's a stage" have become dramatic cliches instead of obvious puns on The Rose and The Globe.

  • @DavideCosmaro
    @DavideCosmaro 2 года назад +8149

    Ooh, so when teenage girls ship themselves with their idol and write stories about them being together it's "trash", but when Dante does it it's "the pinnacle of literature" and "a work of art"
    Edit: y'all need to understand what a joke is or get out of RUclips

    • @richardgibson8403
      @richardgibson8403 2 года назад +354

      I mean, do they go to hell? I didn’t think so!

    • @fictionfan0
      @fictionfan0 2 года назад +251

      Literary analysis is basically the most exclusive of exclusive groups. And I'm an English major.

    • @SongReference
      @SongReference 2 года назад +141

      It's really mostly because it's old, I think

    • @mrstarnation4171
      @mrstarnation4171 2 года назад +55

      Both are pretty trash ngl

    • @NathanCassidy721
      @NathanCassidy721 2 года назад +118

      It’s easier to sell something that is based on a subject that people actually want to read and not the subject of sexual frustration.
      And say what you will, Dante had a pretty creative imagination.

  • @anxiouspaw
    @anxiouspaw 2 года назад +3816

    To be clear, he never actually talked with this "girlfriend of his", nor did she acknowledge him at all in real life, Dante just thought she looked really cute and wanted to get with her.

    • @Ramsey276one
      @Ramsey276one 2 года назад +101

      CLASSIC
      XD

    • @fictionfan0
      @fictionfan0 2 года назад +158

      This raises *so* many questions.

    • @user-qu9sb4sb6u
      @user-qu9sb4sb6u 2 года назад +132

      Plus he met her when she was 9

    • @Ramsey276one
      @Ramsey276one 2 года назад +59

      @@user-qu9sb4sb6u Excuse meWUT

    • @nekrotikon.
      @nekrotikon. 2 года назад +139

      @@user-qu9sb4sb6u I mean, weren't they both kids when they met?

  • @thanatoast
    @thanatoast 3 года назад +6663

    Dante's Inferno A.K.A. Dante and Virgil's excellent adventure.

    • @dragonoax
      @dragonoax 3 года назад +605

      *clear's throat*
      Dante's Bizzare Adventure

    • @TitanJonkler
      @TitanJonkler 3 года назад +71

      This actually happened after they left the Emperor of Rome and his mechanic friend dealing the last demons as the World Tree Fell

    • @jesuschavez5875
      @jesuschavez5875 3 года назад +17

      WOAH!...

    • @ManahManah77
      @ManahManah77 3 года назад +29

      Actually that rabbit that was in Bill and Ted's hell in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey scared the s*** out of me

    • @pastelnova6936
      @pastelnova6936 3 года назад +84

      @@dragonoax Dante's Bizarre Adventure: Circles of Inferno

  • @K1LL3R_4RC4D3
    @K1LL3R_4RC4D3 4 года назад +8032

    Greek dude: exists
    Dante: *bippity bell now go to hell*

    • @jobisTheWorst
      @jobisTheWorst 4 года назад +210

      Greek dude:*Exists *
      Dante: Welcome to hell buckro

    • @Jobe-13
      @Jobe-13 4 года назад +7

      KiwiCupcake 😂

    • @bunnyandthehunterz1081
      @bunnyandthehunterz1081 4 года назад +5

      Lol

    • @GearShotgun
      @GearShotgun 4 года назад +57

      Pretty accurate. It was thought that anyone who died before Big J was sent to hell since they weren't christian. Not for being bad, just because.

    • @jack6126
      @jack6126 4 года назад +46

      Well plenty of them just go to limbo in Dante’s Inferno, which is basically just mediocre heaven.

  • @Amanda-zn7ox
    @Amanda-zn7ox Год назад +672

    Dante wrote a fanfiction where he went on a symbolic journey with a guy who wrote a fanfiction about the Trojan War? We're getting into multiple layers here.

    • @KyleRayner12
      @KyleRayner12 Год назад +47

      "My Journey with the Author of My Immortal"

    • @DimaJeydar
      @DimaJeydar 10 месяцев назад +18

      Nine, to be exact

  • @benlowe1701
    @benlowe1701 3 года назад +2611

    What's interesting about Dante's treatment of Muhammed, is that he places him among the schismists, rather than the false prophets. And seems to rate Saladin and other Muslim leaders as among the rightous pagans.
    This suggests to them, that Christians of this era may have felt more kinship with the Muslims of that Era than modern Christians do with modern Muslims. Dante at least, seemed to consider Islam to be a schisming sect of Christianity, rather than a rival religion in its own right, and apparently didn't think Muslims in general were that bad, merely reviling it's founder for splitting off from the mother church, rather than founding a fresh religion.
    I find that interesting. Still problematic. But fascinatingly more nuanced than "Die Filthy Heretic" you'd expect...

    • @GrandTemplarVigilant
      @GrandTemplarVigilant 3 года назад +270

      Well in the early days of Islam during the medieval era Islam was seen more as a Heresy/Schismatic doctrine of Christianity rather than its own religion by the Catholics and Orthodoxies of the time.

    • @bioticjedi3864
      @bioticjedi3864 3 года назад +337

      Can confirm (got my master's in medieval history) that during dante's time christian sentiments towards muslims (at least everyday christians) were pretty tolerant all things considered. Christians then seemed to have had more hatred for Jews rather than muslims, some suggest it may be because theologians had a harder time justifying hating muslims because theirs nothing in their scripture about muslims because Islam happened 600 years later whereas Jews are present in their literature.
      Interestingly they tended to view Muhammad in those days as another christian sect leader which were all over the place during dante's time so yea it makes sense that he would've seen muslims as a Christian sect rather than a separate religion.

    • @starsgears9200
      @starsgears9200 3 года назад +267

      @@bioticjedi3864 i suspect the logic is "at least the Muslims acknowledge Jesus as a prophet."

    • @bioticjedi3864
      @bioticjedi3864 3 года назад +110

      @@starsgears9200 yea that part was important

    • @tarab_95
      @tarab_95 3 года назад +98

      From what I learned in my mythology class where we had to read this, Dante potentially saw Mohammed as a cardinal that tried to create a schism in Christians with his teachings.
      Completely off the mark from what Mohammed was but I still think it's an interesting take on the guy

  • @Nightfire613
    @Nightfire613 4 года назад +4052

    Pope/Greek Hero: exists
    Dante: *I diagnose you with Hell*

  • @FirstLast-cg2nk
    @FirstLast-cg2nk 3 года назад +7546

    So to all of you fanfiction writers, don't be afraid to keep writing. Who knows, maybe one day your fanfic will become the foundation of a major religion's perception of the afterlife, like Dante's was.

    • @Luke-1337
      @Luke-1337 3 года назад +237

      I would not want to live in that reality seeing some fanfics are questionable

    • @mmgg1671
      @mmgg1671 3 года назад +90

      he is also one of the creators of the italian language

    • @khesnavplays2932
      @khesnavplays2932 3 года назад +220

      One day, people will think that Shrek is the guardian of heaven and the cookie monster is the gate keeper of hell and that they used to have an affair

    • @mmgg1671
      @mmgg1671 3 года назад +33

      @Jackson’s Account well yes, he created the italian language, he mixed the tuscan language with the latin and created an old version of the italian

    • @mmgg1671
      @mmgg1671 3 года назад +4

      Also Boccaccio and Petrarca did that

  • @_fedmar_
    @_fedmar_ 2 года назад +934

    Virgil: "So here we are at the city of Dis."
    Dante: "Why's it called Dis?"
    Virgil: "DIS NUTS!"

    • @dlukomski4207
      @dlukomski4207 2 года назад +18

      Ha got ‘em 🤣

    • @magleskov
      @magleskov Год назад +6

      Dis is fire

    • @silverdrag0n_
      @silverdrag0n_ Год назад +3

      bro, i'm gonna fricking lose my mind

    • @hx5525
      @hx5525 Год назад +3

      Imagine if it was actually in the book

    • @KyleRayner12
      @KyleRayner12 Год назад +10

      @@hx5525 "I've been waiting in Limbo for thousands of years to make that joke.
      Totally worth it."

  • @unreliablenarrator8219
    @unreliablenarrator8219 3 года назад +1367

    This is ten times funnier if you imagine Virgil and Dante as Vergil and Dante from Devil May Cry

    • @legomaniac213
      @legomaniac213 3 года назад +228

      That would be extremely difficult since they're not trying to kill each other every 5 seconds.

    • @unreliablenarrator8219
      @unreliablenarrator8219 3 года назад +93

      @@legomaniac213 my point still stands

    • @VergilDarkslayer
      @VergilDarkslayer 3 года назад +140

      I mean the end of dmc 5 is bassicaly this

    • @aceofjacks7071
      @aceofjacks7071 3 года назад +80

      ... I think we found the premise for the next game.

    • @gamechanger8908
      @gamechanger8908 3 года назад +24

      @@aceofjacks7071 Nero: n o

  • @phoenixmeth8244
    @phoenixmeth8244 4 года назад +4766

    dude turned a wattpad story into an all time literature masterpiece

    • @zeekthegeek4538
      @zeekthegeek4538 2 года назад +97

      Masterpiece might be a little too generous...

    • @diegoercolani8789
      @diegoercolani8789 2 года назад +19

      @@zeekthegeek4538 why?

    • @usagi_t
      @usagi_t 2 года назад +9

      ​@@diegoercolani8789 Cus it's psychotic?

    • @billhaverchuck3745
      @billhaverchuck3745 2 года назад +85

      @@zeekthegeek4538 It is an absolute masterpiece of political satire. This video, and most of the videos on the Divine Comedy, doesn't even scratch the surface. They retell the poem as if it were a straightforward narrative. It's not.

    • @Zak-tk8wv
      @Zak-tk8wv 2 года назад +3

      Lol

  • @thickymcchicky6987
    @thickymcchicky6987 5 лет назад +10853

    For those wondering about the well-known religious figure that she couldn’t draw...........It was Mohammad

    • @museyoutubes9138
      @museyoutubes9138 5 лет назад +985

      THANK YOU!!!!! I was scrolling for like, 5 minutes to find out who it was!

    • @thickymcchicky6987
      @thickymcchicky6987 5 лет назад +244

      Muse RUclipss np!!!

    • @thickymcchicky6987
      @thickymcchicky6987 5 лет назад +591

      Mohammed Yousef what? Wrong comment bro, I was just saying what it was she couldn’t draw

    • @FuzzySlipprs
      @FuzzySlipprs 5 лет назад +576

      @@mohammedyousef3845 I saw this reply in a different thread. You're a little overzealous in your opinion. Especially around mixed company who might not share your view on the world. Why bother? You aren't changing hearts and minds. Not saving souls with these comments. If anything you steer people away. What's the point?

    • @jayit6851
      @jayit6851 5 лет назад +399

      I'm surprised more people can't infer that's who it was. It's a pretty common thing in pop culture to not draw him.

  • @crimsonstone3627
    @crimsonstone3627 2 года назад +320

    Fun Fact: My marching band went to state with a show based on Dante's Inferno, Pergatory, and Paradise. I got to scream at the top of my lungs during the Inferno feature and say the classic "ABANDON HOPE! ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE!" At the beginning of the Inferno act.

    • @wilddragonsong2994
      @wilddragonsong2994 2 года назад +13

      That sounds amazing.

    • @Oldladies_o7
      @Oldladies_o7 Год назад +9

      Dang as a graduated band kid I wish I could have been part of that mayhem

    • @thegameranch5935
      @thegameranch5935 Год назад +6

      A Dante inferno musical, i need it

    • @OkamiDesuGa
      @OkamiDesuGa Год назад +1

      Duuuuuuude lucky. That sounds amazing

    • @TheAroSpecWallet
      @TheAroSpecWallet Месяц назад +1

      I wish I could yell that at the top of my lungs cause why not

  • @clarity7650
    @clarity7650 3 года назад +379

    “Pretty dense read”
    That’s an understatement, I read this book back in high school. It felt like reading a brick.

    • @scienceface8884
      @scienceface8884 3 года назад +42

      I've read a few bricks in my time, they usually just say something like "This building began construction on Octember 32, 2280" or just a dead person's name.
      Takes no time at all!

    • @kindlyevilbgm
      @kindlyevilbgm Год назад +1

      ​@@scienceface8884 Octember?

    • @martin0499
      @martin0499 2 месяца назад

      Read the new translation in rhyme by Clive James, it flows superbly

  • @bear8767
    @bear8767 3 года назад +7106

    Dante writing Achilles into the lustful circle of hell in his self-insert fanfic about the girl he met once is honestly so ironic

    • @jillianrose2891
      @jillianrose2891 3 года назад +355

      Achilles goes in the slut hut for his crimes. - Dante

    • @rageagainstthemicrowave1313
      @rageagainstthemicrowave1313 3 года назад +446

      Yeah why the second circle? Isn't the illiad about the rage of Achilles? Wouldn't it be wraith that he would be in?

    • @elias.t
      @elias.t 3 года назад +685

      @@rageagainstthemicrowave1313 Dante was never able to read the Iliad. It was lost in his time, so all he knew about many of the Greek heroes was what the Romans wrote about them later. In Achilles's case, he was given an entirely different death and everything. He instead died after planning to join the Trojans for the hand of a woman named Polyxena who then betrayed him with Paris's help, and Dante probably put him in the circle of lust for that.

    • @greenredblue
      @greenredblue 3 года назад +574

      Don't nobody tell Dante about Patroclus. It'll mess up his whole filing system.

    • @chiranjibdutta2203
      @chiranjibdutta2203 2 года назад +33

      @@greenredblue There are 69 likes. Perfect.

  • @oom5768
    @oom5768 5 лет назад +4821

    >commits suicide because of suffering
    >still suffers in hell
    OHNONONONONO

    • @formerunsecretarygeneralba9536
      @formerunsecretarygeneralba9536 5 лет назад +218

      That's how hell works 🤷‍♂️

    • @koki4076
      @koki4076 5 лет назад +182

      Well I'm going to hell no matter what I do
      Soooo..........
      YEET

    • @smikael4003
      @smikael4003 5 лет назад +88

      @@koki4076
      I mean you should try not to get more suffering. I hear that by the time you get to hell, you won't ever feel numb to pain, it'll be recycled experience and, uh oh yeah, the eternal damnation without relief, probably without being able to talk to anyone, not being able to shit normally, dying and being revived, and ugly, scary monsters (super creeps) keep you running, running scared. It's just not worth the experience, but if you want to take the L, go for it. Yeet to heaven, not that cold-ass hot-ass hell hole

    • @tibfulv
      @tibfulv 5 лет назад +135

      Better to renounce Christianity and end up in Limbo, lol.

    • @pichun6556
      @pichun6556 5 лет назад +14

      @@smikael4003 wtf

  • @Duskets
    @Duskets 2 года назад +177

    The Divine Comedy is basically Dante’s headcanon about how all the bullies and people he disliked would end up suffering for eternity and that Dante himself would go on super sick adventures with his idols.
    The man was the OG 14 year old edge lord.

  • @pauciloquentflibbertigibbe5217
    @pauciloquentflibbertigibbe5217 3 года назад +198

    It is pretty wild that Dante assigned the severity of betraying Caesar as an equal sin to betraying the literal son of God.

  • @donnamitsuki281
    @donnamitsuki281 5 лет назад +4002

    "yuck,you write self-insert? So. Much. Cringe!!"
    Dante: *literally writes how he hangs around with his favorite poet of all time and even meets people he always wanted to met*
    -had to-

    • @neutronalchemist3241
      @neutronalchemist3241 4 года назад +246

      It has been noticed how the Dante main character of the Comedy, is very different from the historical Dante poet. He is weak, timorous (Dante was a war veteran) and not very bright (not understanding the meaning of much of the things that the Dante poet wrote). More than a self-insert, Dante gave his name to a proper character that was fit for the poem.

    • @wahngott4711
      @wahngott4711 4 года назад +256

      @@neutronalchemist3241 so it was not only a self insert but a roleplayed one at that!

    • @KumaoftheForest
      @KumaoftheForest 4 года назад +113

      Dante was first fan fiction writer

    • @Pingwn
      @Pingwn 4 года назад +50

      @@KumaoftheForest not really, but it is the longest (or one of the longests)

    • @AllthatmakesFall
      @AllthatmakesFall 4 года назад +4

      Too good

  • @Glace1221
    @Glace1221 3 года назад +4529

    If Dante can write self-insert fanfiction and become a legend for it then by God so can I

  • @arnolddeleon6674
    @arnolddeleon6674 2 года назад +143

    This can be a really good premise for the next Devil may Cry. Dante and Vergil exploring through the 9 circles preventing the Escape of Satan while constantly arguing / battling each other just to prove who is the strongest.

  • @KyleRayner12
    @KyleRayner12 Год назад +52

    The greed one makes sense to me, as the boulders are (as I recall) sized in proportion to the fortunes they hoarded. They spent their lives building up useless wealth, and now their obsession is a) the sole focus/task of their afterlives, and b) difficult to bear in proportion to their efforts in life.

  • @jackiedim7028
    @jackiedim7028 4 года назад +3859

    Avengers Endgame is the most ambitious crossover in history.
    Dante Alligheri: Hold my wine

    • @prizmarvalschi1319
      @prizmarvalschi1319 3 года назад +56

      Blood of christ *

    • @alecm.5664
      @alecm.5664 3 года назад +16

      More like hold my bone scythe

    • @tyrant-den884
      @tyrant-den884 3 года назад +1

      Yeah, no. It's not the sheer number of stuff in there which made Endgame ambitious.

    • @vullord666
      @vullord666 2 года назад +4

      @@tyrant-den884 I mean pretty much nothing made Endgame "ambitious". There weren't that many crossovers, the MCU had been laying the ground work a long time, Disney was a massive company that threw tons of money at production, it had a massive cult following, and the list goes on. By the definition of the word, Endgame wasn't "ambitious". It was set from success from the start. We just have that line because the internet loves memes.

    • @tyrant-den884
      @tyrant-den884 2 года назад +3

      @@vullord666 sure, by that definition CW's Crisis was far more ambitious.
      But as a representative of the culmination of the MCU: Endgame was indeed very ambitious.

  • @awkwardukulele6077
    @awkwardukulele6077 4 года назад +1661

    Blasphemy: *burning*
    Treachery: *freezing*
    Just blaspheme after you betray someone, the sins cancel out in hell, it’s simple math right guys?

    • @joey_luna
      @joey_luna 4 года назад +209

      Modern problems require modern solutions

    • @PredatorPL-vp2qt
      @PredatorPL-vp2qt 4 года назад +27

      @Jacob Morgan dont kill this lad's hope

    • @virginiareaper1178
      @virginiareaper1178 4 года назад +5

      @Jacob Morgan What's considered to be worse?

    • @npc6817
      @npc6817 4 года назад +37

      nah man you'll be burning _AND_ freezing

    • @nunyabusiness776
      @nunyabusiness776 4 года назад +16

      my algebra teacher said so. if it doesn't we're gonna have some words

  • @StudyWithFai
    @StudyWithFai 7 месяцев назад +21

    I can’t even begin to describe how much I just love Dante’s inferno, like it really is a self insert fic but tells us SO much about attitudes and opinions of the time. It’s crazy

    • @Tolstoy111
      @Tolstoy111 2 месяца назад

      It's not FanFic. The idea doesn't make sense projected that far back.

  • @thomasporter4627
    @thomasporter4627 2 года назад +152

    0:18 actually the word "inferno" is perfectly appropriate because it just means "the lower regions" (like "inferior"), and the connotation of fire is because of the stereotype of hell.

    • @KelsoRae
      @KelsoRae Год назад

      I thought the same thing

    • @melodramaticdragon5826
      @melodramaticdragon5826 2 месяца назад +1

      So "inferno" became synonymous with "fire" because it was used to describe Hell, and not the other way around?
      That's fascinating.

  • @eden2556
    @eden2556 4 года назад +2969

    "inferno" just means "hell" in italian, so it's not strictly about the fire

    • @MrFossil367ab45gfyth
      @MrFossil367ab45gfyth 4 года назад +108

      Yeah, and anyway Dante's interpretation of Hell isn't mostly fiery. The only time fire is used as punishments are:
      1. Sixth Circle: Heresy- Sinners burn in open tombs.
      2. Seventh Circle- Third Ring- Violence against G: Sinners are burned by a fiery rain.
      3. Eighth Circle- 3rd Bolgia- Thr Simonists: Sinners are place into a hole one on top of the other and the feet protruding out are burning.
      4. Eighth Circle- 8th Bolgia- False Counselors: Sinners here are burning in their own individual flame.
      Plus the flaming walls of Dis. But only 4 punishments involve fire.

    • @birbin2443
      @birbin2443 3 года назад +43

      "The hell"

    • @forg783
      @forg783 3 года назад +2

      100th like, here we go.

    • @odd-eyes6363
      @odd-eyes6363 3 года назад +43

      Not just Italian, all Latin-based languages except french I think

    • @WizardOfArc
      @WizardOfArc 3 года назад +9

      Inferno just means “below” yes? Like inferior

  • @nikki607
    @nikki607 4 года назад +2478

    "Reading the book wasn't too quick either"
    At least you get to read a translation. Let me tell you a secret: Italian High School students (including bu not limited to myself) do not. We get the pleasure of having to comb through the original. And that shit might as well be a different lanuage for all I know because Florentine is closer to Latin than it is to Italian -.-

    • @willieoelkers5568
      @willieoelkers5568 3 года назад +234

      I remember when we were starting "Romeo and Juliet" in my English class. I skimmed the first bit while the teacher was giving some background Shakespeare info, and asked my teacher if I could get a copy in English. It's probably not as bad, but like half the work is done in metaphors and sayings that died out a couple centuries ago.

    • @annabaars2418
      @annabaars2418 3 года назад +34

      Willie Oelkers i’m italian and in english literature we actually read Shakespeare’s output lol, Romeo and Juliet included

    • @Window4503
      @Window4503 3 года назад +74

      @@annabaars2418 Beats Beowulf in the original text lol

    • @LastEmperor_
      @LastEmperor_ 3 года назад +66

      @@Window4503 i mean beowulf is closer to German or Dutch than modern English, that Norman conquest really riled things up

    • @miraigond8412
      @miraigond8412 3 года назад +26

      quello, e i trecento significati, la numerologia e le figure retoriche.

  • @ShoHidari
    @ShoHidari 3 года назад +444

    Everytime I hear Vergil’s name I start feeling motivated.

  • @fabrizeantonio4425
    @fabrizeantonio4425 3 года назад +62

    Dante in Devil May Cry: *beats the everloving shit out of Vergil through a generally unsavory and oddly baroque building-filled Hell*
    Dante in Divine Comedy: *writes a self-insert fanfic where he gets along with his pretty boyfriend Virgil through the fiery/cold/sludge-filled/meat grinding pits of Hell*

  • @pickelhaubeproductions6143
    @pickelhaubeproductions6143 5 лет назад +2047

    I've committed multiple sins. Good luck fitting me into a circle.

    • @tntimothyroditi1576
      @tntimothyroditi1576 5 лет назад +60

      How about a ball?

    • @rickydawn6313
      @rickydawn6313 4 года назад +18

      If not an organic shape... Then a square!!!

    • @donalddickerson206
      @donalddickerson206 4 года назад +115

      Ironically, in Dante, you get to go to the worst circle for your crimes. So...yeah. They even ask people about that, and they're like "I only did this one thing, but it put me in this worse circle than what I should have gotten"

    • @gecttakhla4249
      @gecttakhla4249 4 года назад +5

      9th

    • @Anthony-xr7iy
      @Anthony-xr7iy 4 года назад +6

      Pickelhaube Productions it is not too late to repent

  • @sebbee8240
    @sebbee8240 7 лет назад +3811

    Dante's Inferno, a self insert fanfic by a guy who wanted to go on an adventure with his senpai.

    • @Kyl5
      @Kyl5 7 лет назад +201

      it is more the hate speech of an unappreciated minstrel against his public enemies, with the tech available in 1300

    • @terry2788
      @terry2788 6 лет назад +129

      There are two kinds of people

    • @saftytorch4435
      @saftytorch4435 6 лет назад +207

      Swampy Foxxer I can't wait for the Self-Insert Pokémon FanFiction I wrote when I was 11 to become one of the most influential pieces of literature in History.

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 5 лет назад +95

      At one point he gets to meet all the great poets of the ancient world who declare him the best poet ever and take him to their party castle where all the virtuous pagans hang out. It is hilarious how fan fiction-y that is.

    • @pandoratheclay
      @pandoratheclay 5 лет назад +15

      Swampy Foxxer
      I’m not the kind of person that would write that often I would just hug my cat because she is fluffy

  • @frankensteinmonster1931
    @frankensteinmonster1931 3 года назад +196

    Fun fact: Satan has four faces (You don’t see the one on the back of the head) because he is a cherubim. These are heavenly beings with the face of a man and the faces of three animals. Lucifer was a cherubim before he fell from Heaven. Cherubim are one of four types of Heavenly beings. (Angels)

  • @rokechikan4481
    @rokechikan4481 2 года назад +76

    I wonder how Dante feels knowing that in a video game franchise, a character named after him is brothers with Vergil.

    • @arcticlaw9198
      @arcticlaw9198 Год назад +15

      I mean considering how often they've tried to kill each other, he might have conflicting feelings

    • @kevinnigins9488
      @kevinnigins9488 Год назад +6

      @@arcticlaw9198 they’re chill now tho

  • @lunaequinox7333
    @lunaequinox7333 5 лет назад +2177

    A self-insert fanfic that becomes a literary classic?
    This dude's my new idol

    • @lemonman8654
      @lemonman8654 4 года назад +24

      Maybe not seeing as he put Mohammed in the 8th circle

    • @lolamae5051
      @lolamae5051 4 года назад +2

      Luna Equinox he’s a whiny shithead

    • @ldib7798
      @ldib7798 4 года назад +34

      Lemon Man wtf this dude is an even better idol now

    • @lunaequinox7333
      @lunaequinox7333 4 года назад +17

      Jeez this blew up
      Lemon Man I'm disappointed in that to, but he's a Catholic in the 1400s, you really can't expect much better
      lola mae stfu
      LazyTitan I don't thank that makes him better
      BlueBerryFairy1 sure will

    • @lolamae5051
      @lolamae5051 4 года назад

      @@lunaequinox7333 what did i do

  • @kawwaiicat7032
    @kawwaiicat7032 5 лет назад +3042

    "Well known religious founder?
    Me: Wait which one is it-
    "Who I'm not allowed to draw"
    Me: Oh.

    • @rcnrbn
      @rcnrbn 5 лет назад +266

      Clue me in? Only person I can think of is Mohammed.

    • @sgauden02
      @sgauden02 5 лет назад +213

      @@rcnrbn You're absolutely right. That is who she is talking about.

    • @Mrkabrat
      @Mrkabrat 5 лет назад +246

      And taking into account they have no sense of humour whatsoever she isnt risking being decapitated/stoned to death by said prophets followers

    • @eni7716
      @eni7716 5 лет назад +309

      Mrkabrat it is not about humor. As Muslims we are not allowed to draw our last prophet, or any prophet in that case.Also we wouldn't kill anyone.

    • @eni7716
      @eni7716 5 лет назад +225

      Mrkabrat you are right. The author of this may not be a muslim, but it would be more respectful If she just didn't draw him.I remember that terrible event and I appreciate that you don't judge every muslim around , but I want to say that terrorism has no religion and there is no violence in Islam.It wasn't in purpose, but your comment might be misguiding for some people, that's why I replied.

  • @halfmettlealchemist8076
    @halfmettlealchemist8076 3 месяца назад +11

    On this one video I’ve seen comments from the DMC fandom, the Ultrakill fandom, and the Limbus Company fandom. Truly, this is a timeless work of literature

  • @juicegirl2696
    @juicegirl2696 6 месяцев назад +19

    dante: why do i hear… explosions?
    V1: BLOOD IS FUEL HELL IS FULL

  • @imgoldzful
    @imgoldzful 8 лет назад +2554

    STABLE jobs
    Get it?
    Because their bottom halves are horses
    I've sinned

    • @tomjones7606
      @tomjones7606 8 лет назад +34

      Not gonna lie I laughed harder than I should have 😂

    • @vesavius
      @vesavius 8 лет назад +21

      I was wondering why that didn't get more attention in the vid when it was said. Ah well, made me chuckle anyhow.

    • @sophiatalksmusic3588
      @sophiatalksmusic3588 7 лет назад +80

      Olivia M Is there a circle for those who make puns? I guess that would be a terrifying PUN-ishment.
      **runs**

    • @berningdaplacetothegroundf6012
      @berningdaplacetothegroundf6012 7 лет назад +38

      dang these puns are *HELLA* spectacular
      *follows the other punners and calls over shoulder*
      ha punners like runners HAHAHAHA

    • @netnet_in_a_sweater9351
      @netnet_in_a_sweater9351 7 лет назад +15

      Olivia M y'all are on fire *runs like hell*

  • @ultgeek9275
    @ultgeek9275 6 лет назад +3391

    A 100 years from now, people might actually analyse the fanfics that we've written now. This is scary.

    • @randomcatmeow1394
      @randomcatmeow1394 6 лет назад +270

      Ult Geek ITS HILARIOUS XD now wait, it could get better IMAGINE THEM ANALYSING *FANARTS*

    • @troyjardine5850
      @troyjardine5850 6 лет назад +196

      I look forward to the day my Great-Grandchildren have to analyze the timeless classic for college Half-life: Full Life Consequences.

    • @randomcatmeow1394
      @randomcatmeow1394 6 лет назад +132

      Troy Jardine i look forward to them analysing memes

    • @cutsieproductions4805
      @cutsieproductions4805 6 лет назад +162

      Ult Geek “Hello class! Today we will be discussing the timeless classic, ‘Joker x Reader Imagines! ‘ “

    • @jf2801
      @jf2801 6 лет назад +125

      Ult Geek Two words. My Immortal. They're gonna think we were fucked up. And they'd be kinda right. XD

  • @taizu55
    @taizu55 3 года назад +99

    *Dante's Bizzare Adventure.*

    • @alesialezhe5211
      @alesialezhe5211 2 года назад

      This. This deserves more likes.

    • @spongeyspikes09
      @spongeyspikes09 Год назад +8

      Circle 1: Phantom Limbo
      Circle 2: Lustful Tendency
      Circle 3: Stardust Gluttons
      Circle 4: Greed is unbreakable
      Circle 5: Wrathful Wind
      Circle 6: Stone HereSEA (Hehe get it?)
      Circle 7: Steel Ball Violence
      Circle 8: Fraudulion
      Circle 9: Traitor Lands

  • @oliviahege2113
    @oliviahege2113 3 года назад +89

    I pray that in a thousand years sarcastic summaries like these are done of the most famous fanfics of our day.

    • @scienceface8884
      @scienceface8884 3 года назад +14

      You don't have to wait a thousand years, they're being done today

  • @ninalima4150
    @ninalima4150 7 лет назад +728

    About the gluttons; what's raining on them isn't water, it's puke. And they're also up to their knees in literal crap. Fun fact: it is also the worst smelling circle of hell!

    • @damooseman6807
      @damooseman6807 7 лет назад +91

      Nina Lima i was going to point it out but you beat me to it lol.
      Also I would point out, that while I don't agree with the punishment, there is a somewhat twisted logic (pardon the pun) to turning fortune-tellers' heads around backwards... They spent their lives trying to see ahead but now kan only see behind them. Just saying because I thought she implied she didn't understand the meaning.

    • @sonyarts6928
      @sonyarts6928 7 лет назад +3

      Nina Lima eeeeewwww

    • @mundanespecter4970
      @mundanespecter4970 7 лет назад +7

      But can you explain the lust one?I really don't think wind is that bad.

    • @mundanespecter4970
      @mundanespecter4970 7 лет назад +1

      But can you explain the lust one?I really don't think wind is that bad.

    • @damooseman6807
      @damooseman6807 7 лет назад +52

      Mr. Ghostly I think that the idea is that it's not so much the wind, but the fact that it blows the spirits themselves around too. Sort of representing the way that lust takes control of one's actions but also if I recall the wind blowing them around prevents them from ever being together again. Perhaps not the worst or even most logical punishment for lust but that's how I understood it.

  • @crypticmrchimes
    @crypticmrchimes 7 лет назад +2403

    To be honest, this is the most entertaining interpretation of Dante's Inferno I have ever seen. Favorite part of it was Limbo. He's like a fan going to a con and seeing all the fandoms there before getting dragged off into reality after closing time.

    • @laraa739
      @laraa739 7 лет назад +69

      Matthew Bradley Yeah I'm italian so they really hammer it on about some parts so we understand it better but I still agreed on all of it. Especially Odysseus. Actually my main problem with it is that it's really heavy being so unfair and the suicide's forest traumatized me the first time I heard it. But I can't deny it's the best sounding poem I've ever heard. So yeah, all true except that inferno just means hell so there wasn't anything strange there

    • @marsdenlyonwahl8071
      @marsdenlyonwahl8071 7 лет назад +3

      Matthew Bradley

    • @redenginner
      @redenginner 7 лет назад +6

      I reccomend inferno by larry niven. It updates it alot and is a very good read.

    • @theinfinitypizza4431
      @theinfinitypizza4431 6 лет назад +2

      Check out a band called Iced Earth. They have a song about it.

    • @General12th
      @General12th 6 лет назад +2

      +Lara Aletta Why did hearing about the suicide forest traumatize you? You should have cheered that justice was served. Suicide "victims" deserve to be tortured forever in increasingly horrifying ways.
      That's what the Bible says.

  • @irafayeb.casinillo4113
    @irafayeb.casinillo4113 3 года назад +105

    The Hitchiker's Guide To Hell is a fanfic crossover I would love to read

    • @scienceface8884
      @scienceface8884 3 года назад +2

      Arthur meets Thor at a party in "Life, the Universe and Everything", and God is on record accidentally unmaking himself during a debate in the first book, so if you write it you're definitely not breaking cannon!

  • @costyhetalia
    @costyhetalia 3 года назад +65

    Ulysses/Odysseus: **goes on another adventure with his crew**
    Dante: Guess who's going to Hell now

    • @justintime3656
      @justintime3656 8 месяцев назад +3

      Circe🤝Dante
      Seending Odysseus in to an Afterlife

  • @user-lr5qw7jr8k
    @user-lr5qw7jr8k 4 года назад +1286

    "VIRGIL SEMPAI IM YOUR BIGGEST FAN!"
    -Dante

    • @lyraspasar649
      @lyraspasar649 4 года назад +65

      Virgil:" you are not worthy as my fanboy."

    • @npc6817
      @npc6817 4 года назад +26

      @@lyraspasar649 so basically devil may cry

    • @Dovey12
      @Dovey12 4 года назад +2

      Heh that’s me lol

    • @boomertunes4410
      @boomertunes4410 3 года назад +2

      Phrases i did not wish to hear for 500, alex

    • @PKINGU
      @PKINGU 3 года назад +10

      Foolishness Dante, foolishness

  • @bart0nius
    @bart0nius 4 года назад +2040

    Cotton candy heaven? More like Dentist’s Inferno.
    i will now die

    • @samrevlej9331
      @samrevlej9331 4 года назад +63

      I don't believe in an afterlife in the traditional sense, but if Heaven existed, then you, sir/madam/other honorific, would absolutely ascend there for that fine marvel of a pun.

    • @Red-mg4ro
      @Red-mg4ro 4 года назад +15

      I'd say there's a special place in hell for people like you, but apparently Dante doesn't have any royal throne for his version.

    • @bart0nius
      @bart0nius 4 года назад +13

      With 3 comments you have successfully created the strangest replies section i have ever had on one of my comments

    • @samrevlej9331
      @samrevlej9331 4 года назад +2

      @@looneyblue7783 You that guy/gal/other honorific that says strange stuff in a callous way, right?

    • @samrevlej9331
      @samrevlej9331 4 года назад +1

      @@bart0nius No need to praise us, comrade.

  • @danshakulawrence983
    @danshakulawrence983 7 месяцев назад +23

    Watching this after playing Ultrakill Layer 7 and I gotta say we're totally fucked in Layer 8

  • @laureneras9523
    @laureneras9523 3 года назад +119

    I described Dante as a glorified fanfic writer that went mainstream to my classics professor...they agreed

  • @tairneanaich
    @tairneanaich 5 лет назад +2424

    The centaurs have STABLE jobs, do they?

    • @tibfulv
      @tibfulv 5 лет назад +6

      Groan.

    • @HovektheArtist
      @HovektheArtist 5 лет назад +19

      They really hoof it too

    • @kylekohler7624
      @kylekohler7624 5 лет назад +6

      Do you feel good about yourself?

    • @Hipick3
      @Hipick3 5 лет назад +5

      So did the people in the trogen horse

    • @thatoneguy5616
      @thatoneguy5616 5 лет назад +9

      Do they have good NIEGH-bors

  • @youknowinhindsight
    @youknowinhindsight 7 лет назад +1198

    "Only part of Hell is actually on fire at any given time, and _the worst bits are rather more chilling..."_
    That pun is treacherous.

    • @JarloftheNorth
      @JarloftheNorth 7 лет назад +7

      I see what you did there...

    • @terry2788
      @terry2788 6 лет назад +6

      Oh my god 😂

    • @misterrogerroger5537
      @misterrogerroger5537 6 лет назад

      Yep. Yer goin' ta hell for that.

    • @blue-eyedfangirl8760
      @blue-eyedfangirl8760 6 лет назад +13

      what, you didn't like that pun-ishment?
      you don't need to be so frosty
      you need to chill out
      (I'm going straight to the 9th circle of hell of this)

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 6 лет назад

      blue-eyed fangirl And you're not even treacherous

  • @weebistelitest8593
    @weebistelitest8593 2 года назад +22

    Vergil sure is trying to help Dante find some motivation

    • @somebodywithacat
      @somebodywithacat 2 года назад +1

      and Pizza
      (In the background Bury the light plays muffled while Vergil's nerves become more and more strained...)

  • @DragonMaster66
    @DragonMaster66 3 года назад +63

    "that manage to escape the BOILING RIVER OF BLOOD."
    *ad break about how turbotax is f r e e*

  • @movietheatersnacks
    @movietheatersnacks 3 года назад +1975

    I love how, according to the requirements, we could just call "Dante's Inferno" "The Afterlife"
    Because if you so much as dropped your candy wrapper on the way to school, you get to be tortured for all eternity.

    • @trappyboi8678
      @trappyboi8678 3 года назад +201

      That's how Christianity works in general, humans are born sinners and thus go to hell on default unless you kiss god's feet for 90 years

    • @NIHIL_EGO
      @NIHIL_EGO 3 года назад +43

      @@trappyboi8678 𝑅𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝐻𝑜𝓅𝑒

    • @NIHIL_EGO
      @NIHIL_EGO 3 года назад +9

      ​@Billy Bob 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭

    • @lordeverett5642
      @lordeverett5642 3 года назад +81

      @@trappyboi8678 Didn’t Jesus die so the original sin was gone and everybody would go to Heaven unless they actively try not to?

    • @lordeverett5642
      @lordeverett5642 3 года назад +80

      @@trappyboi8678 Even the pope said that non-Christians still go to Heaven.

  • @JedediahCyrus
    @JedediahCyrus 4 года назад +1938

    I feel like some parts may have been missed. Such as in the circle of lust it wasn't simply just a bunch of wind but think of the worst hurricane you can ever imagine. Bodies being thrown everywhere and twisted and crushed within the cocytus. And as for gluttony it was not just simply rain but the bodies more bloated and festering in pools of their own filth and feces as they were continuously ripped apart by Cerberus only to reform in these infected pools to have it happen again and again and again. A little more than just rain.

    • @justafallperson2108
      @justafallperson2108 4 года назад +249

      It is a summary dude...the idea is to not give away all the details while still sharpening your curiosity with the hope people will read it themselves.

    • @jacobitewiseman3696
      @jacobitewiseman3696 4 года назад +42

      Sounds like nurglings from Warhammer.

    • @emblemblade9245
      @emblemblade9245 4 года назад +36

      I will forever leave your likes at 68 instead of 69, that’s the true hell

    • @seanwaddell2659
      @seanwaddell2659 4 года назад +2

      EmblemBlade9 welll

    • @virginiareaper1178
      @virginiareaper1178 4 года назад +73

      @@justafallperson2108 Well reading his or her informative descriptive comment, makes me more interested in trying to comprehend the story on my own. Much more than the actual video summary. Since she left alot of that info out in the video and rabbit raced all through it, it made me more frustrated with the story and kinda disinterested. It seemed like she didn't fully understand much of the story herself, but still decided to upload a rambled summary video on the topic.

  • @Galimeer5
    @Galimeer5 3 года назад +15

    The thief snake pit actually sounds kinda fun. You get to be a snake chasing people and if you bite one, they become a snake and you have to run around until a snake bites you.
    It's like a hyper aggressive game of tag.

  • @risdio51
    @risdio51 3 года назад +11

    Featuring Dante from the Divine Comedy series

  • @cursedalien
    @cursedalien 6 лет назад +721

    Oh I get it. When Dante writes a self-insert, it’s “classic literature” and “taught in schools,” but when I do it, it’s “cringey” and I “need to stop.”

    • @IkeOkerekeNews
      @IkeOkerekeNews 5 лет назад +32

      blue-stars
      Well, it was the Renaissance.

    • @Corporatesludgeman
      @Corporatesludgeman 5 лет назад +7

      @@IkeOkerekeNews Middle ages*

    • @IkeOkerekeNews
      @IkeOkerekeNews 5 лет назад +16

      @@Corporatesludgeman
      Renaissance starts in the 1400's.

    • @AishaVonFossen
      @AishaVonFossen 5 лет назад +34

      LOL Sometimes I think that, too, this is a glorified fanfiction before fanfictions became a thing

    • @josephroszell
      @josephroszell 5 лет назад +9

      The first animated batman thing was batman meets scooby doo you gotta start somewhere go forth and cross shit over!!!!

  • @ronanelliott9709
    @ronanelliott9709 4 года назад +1489

    You forgot the guy Dante meets in the 9th circle where Dante's like, "What are you doing down here? You're still alive on earth!"
    And the guy's like, "Ah, yes. You see, I was so evil in life that a demon came up and possessed my body, and dragged my soul down to hell.
    "So you know that guy up there who Dante hates, and who's always doing political stuff that Dante doesn't like? That guy is a *literal devil.* Don't trust him."

    • @vintheguy
      @vintheguy 3 года назад +162

      Politics were more rad back then
      You don't see demons possessing any politicians now adays

    • @Angelalex242
      @Angelalex242 3 года назад +152

      @@vintheguy ....That is debatable.

    • @superevilscientistgamer5939
      @superevilscientistgamer5939 2 года назад +18

      Yeah, because 99% of modern politicians are so evil that even the Devil himself is powerless.

    • @R_lulu
      @R_lulu 2 года назад +39

      Dude, all the guys who does political stuff I don't like are either:
      1- The Devil
      2- Hitler
      So I can both relate and believe in Dante in that matter

    • @superevilscientistgamer5939
      @superevilscientistgamer5939 2 года назад +44

      @@R_lulu you forgot some folks:
      - Stalin
      -Mao Tse-Tung
      - Trump (who might be another version of the guy who's still alive but his soul is in Hell)

  • @bernardo8993
    @bernardo8993 3 года назад +19

    4:25 We built Dis city

  • @chaoz__xcaliber9714
    @chaoz__xcaliber9714 2 года назад +18

    10:46 Achievement unlocked!! : How did we get here

  • @CrowMercury
    @CrowMercury 5 лет назад +2237

    Fun fact: if you are italian, chances are ( Like, 99% ) you actually STUDIED and analyzed the entire comedy like me, because is mandatory in high school.
    You will be surprised to know that yes, it is the biggest fanfiction ever written, but surprisingly Dante points out that for him too some of these judgment are extremely harsh, and his constant fainting is because he’s scared shitless that he belongs in 5 or 6 places he describes.
    Overall, the Inferno is actually an interesting read, and all the punishments are meant to be symbolic, as they are based on fitting the sin.

    • @daniele7989
      @daniele7989 5 лет назад +129

      It's bloody terrific some of the ideas for punishments he comes up with, stuff you would never wish on your worst enemy? of course, but come on, turning suicides into fleshy trees because they rejected the form God gave them in life, the strange weather in the desert to reflect the perversion of nature. And locking blasphemers in flaming coffins because they denied the existence of the afterlife. It's just so intense.

    • @KazumiKiguma
      @KazumiKiguma 5 лет назад +19

      Explain the symbolism of the rain for gluttony please?

    • @TillPunx
      @TillPunx 5 лет назад +121

      @@KazumiKiguma she explained it poorly, basically they get costantly beaten by rain and hail, cerberus costantly eats them, ripping their limbs, also the rain, hail stones and snow, mixes with dirth, and creates mud, they kept eating in life, endulging their hunger, so they basically act like pigs in hell, and they costantly get munched on by Cerberus.

    • @Nestix_the_stupid_one
      @Nestix_the_stupid_one 5 лет назад +63

      Actually, it is not the biggest fanfiction ever written, up to january 2018, the longest work of fiction ever written was a super smash bros brawl fanfiction, "the subspace emissary's world conquest". This fanfiction had 4,102,217 words in total, and the divine comedy has roughly 32 thousand in its entirety. In january 2018, however, another fanfiction rose from the darkness and took the spotlight. "Ambience: a fleet symphony" it's a kantai collection fanfiction with 4,418,061 words in total as of january 2018. I'm pretty sure that all this information is correct, but anyone is free to point out any mistakes in my comment. Thank you for coming to my TED talk

    • @sitchreapotere1073
      @sitchreapotere1073 5 лет назад +99

      @@Nestix_the_stupid_one I think by biggest he meant most influential, not highest word count. There are millions of people who think Dante's depictions of Hell, Heaven, and Purgatory are actually how the Bible describes them, when in fact the Bible offers little to no description of Hell, a very small description of Heaven (NOT the New Earth in Revelation), and never even says Purgatory is an actual thing.

  • @singlesightart
    @singlesightart 4 года назад +517

    “The seventh circle is actually pretty cheerful from the get go, full of friendly centaurs who aren’t even getting punished for anything. They’re holding down STABLE jobs...” the pun is strong with this one lol

    • @Kisamon
      @Kisamon 10 месяцев назад

      Fuck. I missed seeing this the first time I waatched this channel. Should've known that Red is sneakier than I thought.

  • @noreingravity
    @noreingravity 3 года назад +9

    So when Dante writes a self-insert and revenge fanfic where his crush GUIDES him is a classic, but WHEN I DO IT-

  • @isimpforeggos4467
    @isimpforeggos4467 2 года назад +17

    5:55 I immediately saw a period pad ad

    • @Z3N1TY0
      @Z3N1TY0 Год назад +3

      ME TOO LOL

    • @Z3N1TY0
      @Z3N1TY0 Год назад +3

      DOES THE PHRASE “RIVER OF BLOOD” TRIGGER THESE ADS????

  • @buddyltd
    @buddyltd 4 года назад +385

    11:56 "And I gotta say, that is a pretty hefty punishment for two dudes whose only crime was stabbing an old guy in a fancy hat."
    Don't let Blue hear you say that!

    • @lucykavanagh2240
      @lucykavanagh2240 3 года назад +4

      I'm sure he already set some ninja's on her for that.

    • @omarsalem1219
      @omarsalem1219 2 года назад

      I don't really follow blue as much as red does he hate julius ceaser?

  • @RwOverwatch
    @RwOverwatch 8 лет назад +662

    By the by, for those curious, the full encryption on the Gates of Hell:
    I am the way into the city of woe,
    I am the way to a forsaken people,
    I am the way into eternal sorrow.
    Sacred justice moved my architect.
    I was raised here by divine omnipotence,
    primordial love and ultimate intellect.
    Only those elements time cannot wear
    were made before me, and beyond time I stand.
    Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!

    • @laraa739
      @laraa739 7 лет назад +41

      SouthernSpectrum And here's the original (it's just so much better):
      Per me si va nella città dolente,
      per me si va nell'etterno dolore,
      per me si va tra la perduta gente.
      Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:
      fecemi la divina potestate,
      la somma sapienza e 'l primo amore.
      Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create
      se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
      Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'intrate.
      Basically the words are almost the same as modern italian but the grammar and some words are so different that it feels like going from english to middle english. And the cited version of the LAST VERSE is usually in modern italian because the second part would just ruin it otherwise, but in the original it just works. Ok I'll stop now

    • @abbeycase143
      @abbeycase143 7 лет назад +11

      Fucking hell. Why do I say that? You translated it , then typed it all out. How long did that take.

    • @tauronmitronion377
      @tauronmitronion377 7 лет назад +6

      "Lasciate ongi speranza, voi ch'intrate."
      Man, so much fun to say in a voice of doom.

    • @azrialt3267
      @azrialt3267 7 лет назад +3

      MazeOfRozes basically by the way, but i like by the by better

    • @Kyl5
      @Kyl5 7 лет назад +4

      It is actually funny to read a fourth grade translation. Dante wrote in an Italian dialect (around 1300) much before Italian even existed as a language (around 1800; Italy as a whole nation started in 1861, before there were many smaller kingdoms). It is translated to modern Italian, then to modern English, and finally into pseudo archaic English.

  • @randomgirlxrulz
    @randomgirlxrulz 3 года назад +11

    Hold up are you telling me Dante's Inferno is self-insert Bible/Greek mythology/RPF crossover fanfiction???? I love it

  • @phrophetsamgames
    @phrophetsamgames 3 года назад +9

    Honestly one of my favorite "required readings" from high school. Loved Inferno

  • @lmbusiness5300
    @lmbusiness5300 4 года назад +911

    “Personal self-insert historical crackfic” That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Classics essay done.

    • @rickydawn6313
      @rickydawn6313 4 года назад +25

      So happy this dude went down in history

    • @Berries20
      @Berries20 3 года назад +10

      This dude didn't deserve the attention his crack fic got, then again the most popular Avatar fanfic is the one of Sokka drunk raping Toph so-

    • @papertroll1876
      @papertroll1876 3 года назад +21

      Berries 20 sorry, what the fuck?

    • @monke1599
      @monke1599 3 года назад +8

      @@papertroll1876 Yes, i would like to also add: What in the ever loving shit fuck.

    • @rezandrarizkyirianto-1933
      @rezandrarizkyirianto-1933 3 года назад +1

      @@Berries20 I require the source. For...ahem, academical purposes...

  • @ilurvsharrypotter
    @ilurvsharrypotter 8 лет назад +2937

    heyyy "Dante's Inferno: Historically-acclaimed revenge fic" would be really good on a shirt if you have a next round

    • @Specious_Seraphim
      @Specious_Seraphim 7 лет назад +39

      aubreylurvsharrypotter can someone make this I need it now

    • @megamiito1999
      @megamiito1999 6 лет назад +2

      aubreylurvsharrypotter I

    • @-i1007
      @-i1007 6 лет назад +1

      X

    • @SG-dq7rt
      @SG-dq7rt 6 лет назад +4

      I always call them Dantilio, it sounds cute

    • @ktkennedy7421
      @ktkennedy7421 6 лет назад +1

      I LIKE POTTER TOO

  • @thequiet1s141
    @thequiet1s141 3 года назад +21

    I had to watch this for my medieval history class and I'm so happy my teacher chose this video. I'm going to watch all of what Dante wrote because this was hilarious and informative.

  • @gooseman9690
    @gooseman9690 2 года назад +8

    “Have you been to Dis?”
    “Dis where?”
    “DIS NUTS”

  • @duchessnoor
    @duchessnoor 6 лет назад +1785

    *Goes to Proverbial Suicide Forest in Hell*
    *Takes out vlogging camera*

  • @dragonkingscotty
    @dragonkingscotty 5 лет назад +1089

    So the third circle is basically the UK

    • @pRahvi0
      @pRahvi0 5 лет назад +52

      Nah. Ever been to Norway? I've heard the Vikings went to the British isles for more dry weather. ;D

    • @dragonkingscotty
      @dragonkingscotty 5 лет назад +14

      pRahvi0 Jesus Christ . Yeah I am fine I will stay in scotland .

    • @baalgodofrain
      @baalgodofrain 4 года назад +2

      I can agree with that

    • @lmbusiness5300
      @lmbusiness5300 4 года назад +5

      *shouts in offended British* HEY!!!!

    • @baalgodofrain
      @baalgodofrain 4 года назад +1

      Lord DemonFort it’s true though and I’m British to

  • @spencermanning9994
    @spencermanning9994 3 года назад +25

    I wonder why our two protagonists are running away from the danger? They could easily just take them on with their guns and swords and-
    Oh, wait. Wrong Dante and Vergil.

  • @dungusglumbus9946
    @dungusglumbus9946 Год назад +8

    One of my favorite parts of the story is mentioned at 6:38. The narrator (narratris?) doesn’t talk about it, but its really cool. When Dante meets his teacher friend in the 7th circle (the part where it rains fire,) he begins talking with him and goes to sit on the sand. Dante’s friend immediately stops him and says “No! Do not sit. If you sit here, you are stuck there for 100 years.” Pretty cool and terrifying.
    Also another fact: if you read the divine comedy in the original Italian version, ALL of the sentences rhyme, like a poem. It’s a super long story and Dante somehow makes it all rhyme. Pretty cool

    • @deadpan904
      @deadpan904 11 месяцев назад

      I was reading Inferno some time ago on English, and I was so fucking confused it did not rhyme, because I read Inferno on Serbian willingly back in high school and everything rhymed perfectly
      Had to find pdf online on Serbian, because I thought I imagined it rhyming in Serbian. I still prefer my language's version than English

  • @rebelbeammasterx8472
    @rebelbeammasterx8472 6 лет назад +610

    Politicians would love the eight circle of hell, all that oil.

    • @SamaritanPrime
      @SamaritanPrime 5 лет назад +21

      DRILL BABY DRILL!

    • @bloodstoneore4630
      @bloodstoneore4630 5 лет назад +10

      is anyone going to make a joke about the 7th circle and jake paul? or have we forgotten about that now

    • @nerowulfee9210
      @nerowulfee9210 5 лет назад +11

      Then american government invades Hell.

    • @bjornthorgudmundsson2781
      @bjornthorgudmundsson2781 5 лет назад +8

      that was the real reason why the uac was researching hell confirmed

    • @kevinli1438
      @kevinli1438 5 лет назад +1

      You do realize that was TAR, not oil.

  • @samrevlej9331
    @samrevlej9331 4 года назад +684

    Virgil: Dante?
    Dante: Uh-huh?
    Virgil: You know that little voice that people have that tells them to *not* stop and banter with every rando when travelling through Hell itself? YOU DON'T HAVE ONE!!

    • @iridescent28
      @iridescent28 3 года назад +26

      Lol Tulio and Miguel

    • @TekkenGirl4Lyfe
      @TekkenGirl4Lyfe 2 года назад +8

      ...is it bad that I read that in the voices of Dan Southworth and Reuben Langdon?

  • @Cieges
    @Cieges 3 года назад +7

    I like how 5:09 you can see the “stoked ones” facing the screen like they’ve slighted- you went too far red🤣

  • @rachelpark7172
    @rachelpark7172 3 года назад +11

    Dante was at the peak when he wrote la divina commedia. immense art was inspired by this great poem as Doré, or Dali, or in music, Milton Nascimento and Dullmea!

  • @KnTenshi2
    @KnTenshi2 7 лет назад +523

    Since I haven't found anyone else mentioning it; one thing you skipped over was that the frozen lake was made due to the tears of the damned which were then chilled by the winds from the frantic beating of Satan's wings. And he was too stupid to realize that it was his stubborn escape attempt was the primary thing keeping him imprisoned.

    • @TomSistermans
      @TomSistermans 6 лет назад +15

      Well one bit... She skipped and misinterpreted a lot of stuff, I suppose red read a poetic translation, they often change a lot of the information to keep Dante's style but you'll both need a proze version and a poetic one to get a grasp of Dante I say... Didn't the water of Cocytus come from a point higher in hell? It was made out of tears indeed but I thought it was those of the old man of Crete, while the tears of the dammed causes them to freeze further into the river

    • @aronestone100
      @aronestone100 6 лет назад

      Well this extremely old story it hard to find 100% version like illaid

    • @TomSistermans
      @TomSistermans 6 лет назад

      chase newill not the point, we have the entire Divine comedy, it's just that some of the symbolisms and allegories are a bit hard to define, some things red says however are just not in the original or misinterpreted

    • @aronestone100
      @aronestone100 6 лет назад

      Like

    • @royalradish9412
      @royalradish9412 6 лет назад

      Didn’t realize that when I read it! Thank you!

  • @RenoApostoli
    @RenoApostoli 6 лет назад +405

    Fun fact: Virgil gets triggered for Dante's pity on magician's partly because back in Dante's time some people used Virgil's book for predicting future as sort of a party game. Ergo, Virgil could've ended up in lower part of hell for something that he didn't actually do.

    • @denisaene2308
      @denisaene2308 6 лет назад +35

      Don Slyone Oh. That's pretty sad. Especially considering he and most people in Limbo were already denied heaven for a reason I personally can't stomach.

    • @brigidtheirish
      @brigidtheirish 6 лет назад +35

      And it's not even accurate. The theological concept of Limbo doesn't even exist anymore. It was a way station for souls who died before Jesus's sacrifice. When He died, He opened the gates and let everyone into Heaven or Purgatory if they still had business to deal with. It was *completely emptied* and then destroyed because it wasn't needed anymore.

    • @hunnybear25
      @hunnybear25 6 лет назад

      Also the fact he was cleft from crotch to chin... but hey you tried

    • @18wolfspirit
      @18wolfspirit 5 лет назад

      Which work of his was that?

    • @alexandresobreiramartins9461
      @alexandresobreiramartins9461 5 лет назад +3

      When you consider the allegorical view of the poem, it's not so bad. Being denied heaven means being denied illumination by means of your own wrong beliefs, not literally that god would punish nice people for not worshiping him (though I can totally see him doing it).

  • @thebutterflycomposer7130
    @thebutterflycomposer7130 Год назад +6

    The echo really works, albeit presumably unintentionally. Really makes it sound gothic and otherworldly.

  • @sengiko
    @sengiko 3 года назад +5

    Dante’s Inferno, featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series!

  • @AmuletRebel
    @AmuletRebel 5 лет назад +750

    *Self-Insert Historical Crack Fic*
    Best thing I've ever heard a book be called.

    • @fantasyshadows3207
      @fantasyshadows3207 4 года назад

      Me: *contemplates whether or not I should start writing because my stories are like self insert crazy magical-fantasy stories*

    • @JulyBaby
      @JulyBaby 4 года назад

      Hetalia fanfics in a nutshell

  • @fourkings7968
    @fourkings7968 7 лет назад +261

    Subscribed for "Virgil-senpai."

    • @TheDweller77
      @TheDweller77 6 лет назад +7

      Alright, to the second circle for you!! (Lust)

  • @hkbrown2139
    @hkbrown2139 6 месяцев назад +5

    7-4 actually resembles the fire rains in the desert

  • @orangeinkius7257
    @orangeinkius7257 3 года назад +40

    I kept wondering when hitler would show up before I realized this books is hundreds of years old

  • @KumoKrieger
    @KumoKrieger 6 лет назад +1367

    "essentially self insert fanfiction" Thank you, 6+ years ago I told my English teacher this and she almost threw me out of class.

    • @ghost_anna_reads787
      @ghost_anna_reads787 6 лет назад +102

      find her, show her this video( plus all the comments) then have her explain her theory while you explain your's. Also have a third part non-bias judge as added help. If all goes well show owes you a cup of coffee.

    • @floresdeisla
      @floresdeisla 6 лет назад +82

      my english teacher did the opposite, she told us it was like a fanfiction 😂

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 5 лет назад +9

      I just talked to my friend about it. I don't think either of us told our teacher about it.

    • @joycebirrey725
      @joycebirrey725 5 лет назад +2

      Remember Chris-Chan?

    • @elschaefer3448
      @elschaefer3448 5 лет назад +17

      A) Those who fear the truth will be found out
      B) I'd give you a like but I'm not messing with numerical perfection

  • @faroshscale
    @faroshscale 5 лет назад +544

    "Diet Hell" I CHOKED

  • @rynlazorchak574
    @rynlazorchak574 3 года назад +6

    Every band kid gets to the end and immediately starts headbanging when they realize what's playing.

  • @colinmcmillan692
    @colinmcmillan692 2 года назад +5

    The circle of gluttony also has Cerberus and he attacks and eats people randomly within the valley. Or just tears them apart. So its not just rain.

  • @TheCaliMack
    @TheCaliMack 6 лет назад +3364

    For how bitter you make Dante out to be, your art makes him out to be a precious potato

    • @donny7841
      @donny7841 5 лет назад +36

      hhahaahahahaha

    • @CJCroen1393
      @CJCroen1393 5 лет назад +146

      He looks more like a clueless little nerd to me. Which is just as adorable XD

    • @tec-jones5445
      @tec-jones5445 5 лет назад +38

      That's what made me love this poem and this channel 😂

    • @tec-jones5445
      @tec-jones5445 5 лет назад +9

      @Joshua Perry guess were all off to Inferno

    • @megankasa5203
      @megankasa5203 5 лет назад +8

      Lol 'precious potato' :)

  • @thepip3599
    @thepip3599 3 года назад +677

    Why on earth wasn’t Achilles in the circle of the Wrathful and Sullen? If “wrathful and sullen” doesn’t perfectly describe Achilles I don’t know what does!
    Sullen means sulky. Achilles spends almost the whole book sulking in his tent refusing to fight. Then when Patroclus is killed he flies into a rage and defeats an entire army, not caring that he’s prophesied to die. The whole point of the story is his wrath.
    Here’s the real kicker though. What’s the punishment for the fifth circle? Being drowned in the river Styx. What more fitting a final place for Achilles could there be than the very place his story started? It’s like poetry.

    • @mattmarino4033
      @mattmarino4033 3 года назад +68

      Damn. That is the most mega brain thing I’ve heard all day

    • @thepip3599
      @thepip3599 3 года назад +62

      @@mattmarino4033 Thank you. I was really passionate about it when I came up with it. I remember rambling about this to my sister, who didn’t really care. I’m glad other people agree with me.

    • @fpahrabael6932
      @fpahrabael6932 3 года назад +7

      @@thepip3599 Got you covered, bro

    • @NIHIL_EGO
      @NIHIL_EGO 3 года назад +11

      @@mattmarino4033 I'm gonna go to Hell and force Dante to change his book just for you. Don't need to wish me luck.

    • @fantasyshadows3207
      @fantasyshadows3207 3 года назад +36

      OH MY GOSH FRICKING SAME
      I’ve been trying to understand just why he wasn’t in the wrathful and sullen river.
      According to my book, apparently one of the versions of the Iliad Dante read had Achilles chasing after a Trojan princess and was killed for it
      I have no idea what kind of really weird version he read, that’s just probably the reason he was in the second circle of hell
      But the biggest question is
      But why isn’t Aggamenon here?

  • @tsflareon
    @tsflareon 7 месяцев назад +4

    Everyone appreciate hell while it lasts, before V1 comes along and kills everything.

  • @tarab_95
    @tarab_95 3 года назад +6

    Dude I gotta say my favorite characters in the Inferno are the Malebranche. In mythology class my teacher basically described them as a Biker Gang from Hell, with ridiculous names like Malacoda (Evil Tail) and other weird shit that reminds me of Tazer Face from Guardians of the Galaxy 2.
    The best part bout them is how shit gets slapstick ridiculous as soon as they show up. The entirety of the Inferno is played fairly straight faced for the most part except for the circle of Fraud where the Malebranche are, and this is best depicted when one chapter (called a canto) ends with the demon bikers "saluting" Malacoda (their leader) by baring their teeth, and him acknowledging that by ripping the largest Hell-ass.
    No really, he farts. The next canto starts by Dante saying hes seen so many strange things in life...but never has he seen a salute be acknowledged by a demon-fart.
    It's actually incredibly amazing and the best part of the Inferno imo lmao