Dante shown holding a copy of the Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to Hell, the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, with the spheres of Heaven above, in Michelino's fresco.
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative and allegorical vision of the Christian afterlife is a culmination of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church. It helped establish the Tuscan dialect in which it is written as the Italian standard.
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative and allegorical vision of the Christian afterlife is a culmination of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church. It helped establish the Tuscan dialect in which it is written as the Italian standard.
Contents
1 Structure and story
1.1 Inferno
1.1.1 The Circles of Hell
1.1.1.1 First Circle (Limbo)
1.1.1.2 Second Circle
1.1.1.3 Third Circle
1.1.1.4 Fourth Circle
1.1.1.5 Fifth Circle
1.1.1.6 Sixth Circle
1.1.1.7 Seventh Circle
1.1.1.8 Eighth Circle
1.1.1.9 Ninth Circle
1.2.1 The Terraces of Purgatory
1.3.1 The Spheres of Heaven
