Love and Suffering The Aeneid by Virgil and Inferno by Dante are both works centering around adventures. In both of these adventures, love is intertwined with suffering. Why are love and suffering connected as such? In The Aeneid, Aeneas suffered a great deal and then was fated to lead his people to Italy and Rome. Aeneas “marries” the Queen of Carthage, Dido, who eventually kills herself out of despair. In Inferno, Dante is taken on …showed first 75 words of 1270 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1270 total…the fall of Troy and the loss of his wife before finding Dido and “marrying” her. In Inferno, Paolo and Francesca suffer in Hell after they were killed for falling in love. In The Aeneid, a reoccurring theme is that bad things are ahead and that we must go through the bad things in order to get to the good things. The opposite is true in the story of Paolo and Francesca in the Inferno.