"Inferno" means "hell" in Italian. Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Part One of a trilogy titled The Divine Comedy, details the author's descent to Hell in company of his favourite poet Virgil. They are headed for Paradise, where Dante is due to encounter his late girlfriend Beatrice.
Like The Fiancés, The Divine Comedy is read and discussed by Italian high-school students, and thus a staple of the national literary canon. Renzo and Lucia are as well-known as Paolo and Francesca, or Count Ugolino (some of the damned that Dante and Virgil encounter in Hell).
Oblivion's rendition of Inferno opens to the tune of "Old Macdonald had a Farm", but its mood darkens and lightens gradually:
All of Oblivion's sung literary parodies are awesome retellings of the original works that they are based on!
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