The quote "abandon all hope ye who enter here" is from which text ?
Correct answer: B. The Divine Comedy
- A. Vita Nuova
- B. The Divine Comedy
- C. De Vulgari Eloquentia
- D. De Monarchia
Explanation
The warning appears above the gate of Hell in Inferno III, and the Inferno forms the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy. It is not from any of Dante's prose treatises or Vita Nuova.
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