The Divine Comedy

Name: The Divine Comedy
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Author: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9788726595666

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Frightened and helpless, Dante is desperate to join his Beloved Beatrice at the gates of Heaven. But fate and fear have other plans. He's sins have landed him at the beginning of a soulless and sacrilegious journey. He must now climb through Hell in search of redemption. There's only one way in, with little way out.

As Dante cleanses his soul, he journeys through the nine circles of Hell and seven terraces of Purgatory. Who will he meet along the way? And what wrongs have they reckoned with to end up in God's burning Inferno? And most importantly, can Dante reach redemption to secure his seat in Heaven?

Celebrated as a cultural pillar of religious understanding, `The Divine Comedy' is a must-read poetic narrative for fans of T.S. Eliot's ´The Waste Land´ and John Milton's ´Paradise Lost´.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher, celebrated as the `father' of the Italian language. His `Divine Comedy' is widely celebrated as one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary works in the Italian language. The work was instrumental in shaping the Western world's understanding of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven and continues to influence depictions across all art forms today.

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Italian: ; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; c. May 1265 – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language. At a time when Latin was still the dominant language for scholarly and literary writing—and when many Italian poets drew inspiration from French or Provençal traditions—Dante broke with both by writing in the vernacular, specifically his native Tuscan dialect. His De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular) was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular as well as a watershed study of the troubadour tradition and its craft of rhyme. His use of the Florentine dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and Divine Comedy helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language. His work set a precedent that important Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would later follow. Dante was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy, and is considered to be among the country's national poets and the Western world's greatest literary icons. His depictions of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven provided inspiration for the larger body of Western art and literature. He influenced English writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, and Alfred Tennyson, among many others. In addition, the first use of the interlocking three-line rhyme scheme, or the terza rima, is attributed to him. He is described as the "father" of the Italian language, and in Italy he is often referred to as il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet"). Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called the tre corone ("three crowns") of Italian literature.