This work's final section begins with a parody of the first line of the hym
This work's final section begins with a parody of the first line of the hymn "The royal banners forward go," and ends with the protagonists travelling from the title location to an island in the Antipodes. Before entering Cocytus with the help of Antaeus, its narrator gets directions around a broken bridge from Malacoda. After getting lost in a forest "midway along the road of life," this work's narrator passes under a gate reading "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" and enters Limbo with Virgil. For 10 points, name this first book of Dante's Divine Comedy, set in Hell.
This work's final section begins with a parody of the first line of the hymn "The royal banners forward go," and ends with the protagonists travelling from the title location to an island in the Antipodes.
Dante's Inferno [prompt on The Divine Comedy; prompt on Divina Commedia]