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Some quotations from Dante's Inferno were taken from the following translation: The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Cantica I: Hell. Translated by Dorothy L. Sayers. New York: Penguin Books, 1949. In addition, Sayer's introduction was indispensable to this study.

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