Counting by Fives: A Literary Reading of Inferno.

The article offers poetry criticism of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy: Inferno." It explores the use of medieval numerology in the Divine Comedy, as used in the structure of Purgatory, the character of Beatrice, and the punishments of hell. The use of Old Testament and Augustinian ideas about the number five to show the human senses, perception, and creation in the "Inferno" is also discussed.