What are the personal and universal elements in Dante's Inferno?

I think
that the personal elements featured in
Dante's work are very close to the universal ones.
 Dante, as a pilgrim, is
struggling with his own mid life crisis and his own loss amongst the

spiritually bankrupt nature of the world.  He needs Virgil to guide him and for him
to
understand the nature and meaning of sin, enduring a process of spiritual
purification
to...