Editing Inferno

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'''''Inferno''''' ([[Wikipedia:Italian language|Italian]] for "Hell") is the first part of [[Wikipedia:Dante Alighieri|Dante's]] ''[[Wikipedia:Divine Comedy|Divine Comedy]]''. The poem was written in the early [[Wikipedia:14th century|14th century]]. It is an [[Wikipedia:Allegory|allegory]] telling of the journey of Dante through what is largely the [[Wikipedia:Medieval|medieval]] concept of [[Wikipedia:Hell|Hell]], guided by the [[Wikipedia:Ancient Rome|Roman]] poet [[Wikipedia:Virgil|Virgil]]. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine Circles of suffering located within the Earth. Allegorically, the ''Divine Comedy'' represents the journey of the soul towards God, with the ''Inferno'' describing the recognition and rejection of sin.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Inferno (Dante)|'''Inferno''' on Wikipedia]]</ref>

== In the Halo universe ==
In ''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'', when seeing the portal structure to the [[ONI Research Facility Trevelyan|shield world]] in [[Onyx]]'s [[core room antechamber]], [[Chief Petty Officer]] [[Franklin Mendez]] mentions that it "reminds [him] of Dante's ''Inferno''." [[Catherine Halsey]] corrects him that "Dante's hell was a series of ''descending'' rings," but is interrupted as the floor shifts when the rings in the portal structure begin to close.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 347''</ref>

''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' has drawn some speculation that it was inspired by the poem. In it, the [[Jonathan Doherty|protagonist]] is guided through a metaphorical hell by [[Vergil]], a subroutine of the city's [[Superintendent]] [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]]. Towards the end of the game, he descends to Sublevel 09 of the [[New Mombasa Data Center|Data Center]], where part of it has been frozen, similar to Cocytus, the frozen ninth level of hell.<ref>'''[[Halo 3: ODST]]''', ''[[Data Hive (Level)]]''</ref> In addition, the in-game audio drama ''[[Sadie's Story]]'' is divided into nine "circles", whose themes seem to mirror the circles of Hell as depicted in ''Inferno''.

In ''[[Halo: Glasslands]]'', after having Dr. [[Catherine Halsey]] arrested and brought to ''[[Ivanoff]]'' research station, [[Admiral]] [[Margaret Parangosky]] asks Halsey if she is familiar with ''Inferno'', to which she replies that she has read it a long time ago in [[English]]. Parangosky then notes that Halsey won't be familiar with the Italian word ''contrapasso'', the meaning of which she specifies to be the punishment of souls in Hell in a way it resembles their sin. Parangosky then compares Halsey's current state to ''contrapasso'', as she has been kidnapped, stripped of all her authority, and publicly declared dead, mirroring what she did to the [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II]] candidates.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 428-429''</ref>

In ''[[Halo: Nightfall]]'', [[Talitha Macer]] compares [[Alpha Shard]] to the Ninth Circle of Hell.

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'' {{Fm}}
*''[[Halo: Glasslands]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Nightfall]]'' {{Mo}}
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