Answer: C. The events of the Inferno take place before Dante was exiled from Florence.
Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet, writer and political thinker. He is the author of The Divine Comedy, considered one of the greatest works of Mediaeval literature. The work draws on Dante's experience of exile from his native city in Florence. However, the events of Inferno take place before Dante was exiled from Florence. Inferno is the first section of this epic poem, the other two being Purgatory and Paradise.