In Cantos I-IV of the epic poem, The Inferno, Italian author Dante Alighieri exalts the perfection of God’s faith, and asserts that humanity’s unending greed and desire corrupts reason and thought which diverting them away from faith and morality. Alighieri supports this by imposing the great threat of the three sinful beasts: the She-Wolf, representing unrestrained desire; the Lion, representing pride; and the Leopard, representing deception and fraud; which contrasts with the power of wisdom and guidance from Virgil, as well as love and hope from Beatrice, and condemning humanity’s wrongdoings and actions against God’s will as Dante embarks on his quest for self-realization and redemption. The first four cantos are used to illustrates that
