The Divine Comedy is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308
and completed around 1321, shortly before the author’s death. It is widely
considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works
of world literature. The poem’s imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative
of the medieval worldview as it existed in the Western Church by the 14th century.
It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Para ...