Summarize Dante's journey thus far ...

Dante's journey begins in the middle of his life. Dante fully comprehends that he is lost and is not on the right road. He needs help. He tries to climb up a mountain to reach the illuminating sun. However he is forced back by three majestically beasts. The shade of the poet Virgil appears to Dante and offers to take Dante by another path to reach Dante's goal. On their way Virgil explains to Dante that this journey is divinely Willed. Virgil explains that he was commissioned by the beautiful Beatrice to be Dante's guide. They reach the haunting gates of Hell.
They cross over the River Acheron. Virgil shows Dante his eternal dwelling the place of Limbo. Here, Dante sees many virtuous pagans and becomes one of the six great poets. The poets descend deeper into hell. They reach the beast Minos, responsible to carrying out justice and casting the damned to their rightful place in hell. Here Dante sees the lustful, and talks with the two lovers Paolo and Francesca. Dante reaches the third circle, where the gluttonous dwell. Dante meets his acquaintance, Ciacco. Dante  reveals some political knowledge to Ciacco, Ciacco in-turn talks of a Florentine prophecy.
The poets come upon Plutus, a foul demon. In this 4th circle Virgil shows Dante the souls overcome by anger, and reveals some wisdom about Justice and the Divine. The poet, Dante, spends much time describing the clergy who after a life of arguing are forced to crash boulders into each other.  The poets are ferried across cross the river Styx to the hellish city Dis. Virgil is unable to convince the fallen angles to allow them passage through Dis' gates. The poets wait until heaven sends down a powerful angel, he forces the demons away and opens the gates for the poets' passage. The poets continue through circle 6. Here, Dante sees the heretics buried in their graves. Dante meets Epicurus and Farinata, who know the past and future well but are muddled about the future. This dispels the myth that the damned are omniscient.
In Canto XI the poets pause to become accustomed to the smell. Here Virgil explains the landscape of Hell to be a descending funnel. He lays out the three rings of the upcoming circle, circle 7.In circle 7, the poets meet three centaurs. One named Nessus helps Dante cross the river of blood, where those who committed sins of blood-lust and violence drown. They enter into the circle's second ring to the forest of suicides. All the souls here negated their own being either by suicide or out-spending their own resources. As Dante enters the third ring, he describes its intriguing, dream-like structure, which has some similarities and landmarks of the above earth. The poets descend deeper into the funnel; Dante sees his mentor Brunetto Latini. Among Brunetto are those who committed sodomy. The humanist and the nature-defying character of Brunetto is portrayed as Dante's intellectual father. This exposes how intellectualism has its limits and punishments for Dante. In these last cantos in ring three of Hell's 7th circle Dante meets three sodomites, who were once Florentine politicians. The poets ride the Geryon out of the seventh circle. This awe-full monster is a mix of classical and biblical legend and prophecy. His fearful and disgusting presence chills Dante.
The poets enter the eight circle which consists of multiple evil-pouches. In these pouches lie souls who committed sins of fraud. They lie caked in filth and mud. In the first pouch Dante discourses with an ashamed
Florentine politician.