Dante Alighieri was the titular protagonist of Dante's Inferno who crossed the nine circles of Hell to rescue his lost love named Beatrice. Dante, imagined as a Templar knight from The Crusades, who, guided by the spirit of the poet Virgil, must fight through the nine Circles of Hell to rescue Beatrice from the clutches of Lucifer himself. Against Francesco's objections, the enraged Dante slaughtered all of the prisoners by believing that it was their mission to kill the "Heretics".