Dante was a very intellectual and provocative writer. He wrote the Divine Comedy, which contains three poems. Many have said, “The secret of originality lies in the ability to conceal one’s source.” Dante, when he wrote Inferno, used many sources, but he never gave credence to those he cited. Today, students are taught that if they take someone else's ideas and use them as their own, it is intellectual theft. Dante never had problems when he hid his sources by not giving credit to others. Dante got the idea of ​​the nine circles of hell from outside sources such as the Aeneid and the Bible. An important source used by Dante was Virgil's Aeneid. Dante probably wanted someone else's opinion on what hell is. So Dante looked at the Aeneid because he had the general idea that Virgil had written something about hell. Since he couldn't meet Virgil face to face, he probably took some of Virgil's ideas about hell and put them into his own words. Dante created a more precise idea of ​​hell by giving it circles. I think Virgil thought hell was just a huge plan...