Dante's Hidden God

This book proposes that though Hell seems a God-forsaken place, every scene, character and major image in Dante’s Divine Comedy — Hell, Purgatory and Paradise — is associated with one of the Persons of the Holy Trinity, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as it were lurking in the shadows. Thus every one of the hundred cantos has a ‘dedication’ to a Person, and the cantos form overarching groups which are also so dedicated, making the whole poem like a vast symbolic cathedral, where every act...