Inferno

Inferno is the first cantica of Dante Alighieri's epic poem, The Divine Comedy. It is also arguably the best known section of the poem. It depicts Dante's tour through the eight circles of hell as he seeks to correct the course of his life. The imagery of Dante's

Inferno in The Gladiator
Despite its religious overtones, Inferno was still a critical literary work in the Italian People's Republic. Naturally, it was used to further the communist agenda. Gianfranco Mazzilli was given a homework assignment in which he was write canto in Dante's style depicting a feudal lord, a capitalist and a Fascist in the "appropriate" circle of Hell.

Gianfranco chose Francesco Sforza, Henry Ford and Adolf Hitler. He was somewhat disturbed that his father made the exact same choices when he did the same assignment in school.