Does Dante's Inferno from the 14th century depict an asteroid impact?

Dante's famous 14th century epic poem, "Inferno," which is the first part of the Italian writer's "Divine Comedy," represents the first time a giant impact of a massive object falling from the heavens was envisaged, according to an expert in the specialized field of geomythology. In the poem, the massive object in question is the Devil himself, Lucifer, who fell onto the Earth after being expelled from heaven. …