Which journey is dante referring to in canto 1 line 1

Dante Alighieri, an Italian writer of the fourth century, wrote an epic famous for its theme and formal mastery: The Divine Comedy. It is a work written in verse that throughout three books - hell, paradise and purgatory - explains the dilemma of Christian death and the sins committed by humans.

The first verse of the song alludes to the trip that the protegonist will undertake along with Virgilio, the classic Latin writer, by the nine circles of the hell. This journey is included in the first book of the Divine Comedy, called "L´Inferno".

comfort   in their suffering

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.