Though well within our rights to read Purgatory and the Inferno described in Dante Alighieri’s epic poem
The Divine Comedy (
previously) as metaphorical there have been nonetheless earnest and noble attempts, as
Open Culture informs, from the Renaissance to modern times to diagram and map out Dante’s decent, guided by the Roman poet Virgil, into the lands of the departed. Check out more charts and infographics that illustrated Dante’s vision of Hell at the link above.