Dante's Divine Comedy, the first section of which is the Inferno, is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language – but what would it have been like if he had visited Thailand? The Inferno describes the journey of a fictionalised version of Dante guided through Hell by the classical poet Virgil. In my rewrite, Dante leads the narrator through Pattaya, a place which many men think of as heaven, but is really just another kind of hell.