You Mean There's a Map of Hell?

Yes there is! And here's what it looks like: (Warning: do not look too closely; there’s vicious stuff in there)

By Sandro Botticelli - Botticelli : de Laurent le Magnifique à Savonarole : catalogue de l'exposition à Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, du 1er octobre 2003 au 22 février 2004 et à Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, du 10 mars au 11 juillet 2004. Milan : Skira editore, Paris : Musée du Luxembourg, 2003. ISBN 9788884915641, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10396926

A Substack writer to whom I subscribe - Culture Critic - wrote this post and it landed in my inbox. Here is the link: Dante's Nine Circles of Hell

I don’t know whether to weep in despair or gratitude. I thought I could slide through life without ever meeting Dante. Culture Critic could have put the whole danged thread behind his paywall. Instead, he gave me just enough meat to tempt me. I took the bait. I was enthralled. Terrified. I was back in the first grade with the nuns scaring the Bejeezus (okay) out of me with dire warnings of the Wages of Sin. And now I’m face to face with him (Dante, not CC) in all his Italian poetic Western glory.

And there’s a map of Hell. A real map. I’ve seen it. And I can’t go back.