March 25 is dedicated to Italian poet #Dante Alighieri. His visions of #hell in the Divine Commedy, where souls are tortured by lava & earthquakes, were inspired in part by #geology #Dantedi 🌋 😈

https://forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2016/07/18/the-geological-features-that-inspired-hell-in-dantes-divine-comedy/#36ca8dc07279

The Geological Features That Inspired Hell In Dante's 'Divine Comedy'

Dante's Inferno isn't just a map of Hell - it's a map of medieval views of geology.

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