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Dante's Divine Comedy describes the 6 layers of hell and the 7 areas of heaven. In a very literal sense, it can therefore be described as a vision of afterlife. One step removed, it is also a reflection upon society at the time (early Italian Renaissance), where the description of hell reflects social ills and the description of heaven could be named a vision of an enlightened future.

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