Was Dante's Inferno actually a mining site, where the people were humiliated like in some concentration camp?

Botticelli's painting about "Inferno"
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

In many libraries is a strange book, what has been written the man named Dante Alighieri (1262-1321) in 1321. The book was maybe published after Dante's death because in that book had been written the things, what might cause that the writer of this tale would that writer must step to the bonfire. This book what's name is actually wast the narrative poem "Divine Comedy" has given the people the world "Dante's Inferno", what means the hellish place, and when we are reading that book, we might hope, that Dante had very good imagination, and he wrote a fictional story when he met the demon, who allowed that man visited hell. Inferno was the first part of that book.


The hell was an underground place, where was allowed to go by the well, and that route Dante used, when he visited the place, what he called as "Inferno". The place had nine levels, where the souls were suffered by the things, what they did during their lives, and that is the thing what you might find yourself are the styles of punishments, what those people, who made sin, were found in that place. When we are looking at the pictures, that has been drawn for that book by Botticelli and Gustave Dora in 13th and 19th century.

In Botticelli's painting from the year 1482, is the shape, what we might see in the open mining sites in many books. The Botticelli's image might look like also the pope's helmet, but my opinion is that looks like mining site, and when we are starting to look at those levels of hell, we might see the things like bitumen or some other mineral lake, where those person's who worked in that mining site, were brutally pushed, and those minerals will preserve the bodies like they were in their last moments.


Also, other stories what Dante wrote about that place, told about brutal punishments. When we are looking at the figures of Dante and his guide, we must think that Dante got his contact person the uniform of the guards and allowed to see what was going on in that place, what destination Dante didn't want to tell the people. So was that Inferno the mining site, where people were tortured like in some concentration camp?


Did that place the end of the life those people, who were somehow avoided the bonfire, when they were prosecuted by the  Inquisition? And did that mine site remains in the pope's personal control? Or what was the reason, that Dante hired that place? Did the witch hunting made by the reason, that those mines needed workforce? And what was the reason, that this particular mining site was hidden by the public? What was it the product? Was it gold, jewelry or radium?


What was the reason, why that slavery camp was so secret?  If the production was the radium, the reason might give pope the "power of the God" by the radioactive radiation. In this text, the radium means actually the pitchblende mineral, what is the uranium mineral, and if that mineral would be powdered, the dust would cause cancer. And those times the people didn't know about this symptom.


Or maybe it produced the gold for pope's personal use overtaken the Vatican bookkeepers, and that allowed the pope to hire mercenaries for increasing his and his family personal power in medieval Europe. This might be one explanation, why Dante wrote that novel or poem at the time, where the relationship with the devil might send the man straight to the front of inquisition and then to the bonfire. And in that book Dante told stories, where he was in friendship with the demons. So those writings would send that man straight to grave. And that's why this sensation was published after the writer's death.

Sources

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https://kottke.org/plus/misc/images/botticelli-dante.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy