Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy

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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is a monumental Italian epic poem that narrates the poet’s allegorical journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, exploring themes of sin, redemption, and divine justice.

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instanceOf allegorical poem
epic poem
approximateEndOfComposition c. 1320
approximateStartOfComposition c. 1308
author Dante Alighieri
cantosInInferno 34
cantosInParadiso 33
cantosInPurgatorio 33
centralTheme divine justice
free will
grace
love
redemption
sin
countryOfOrigin Italy
culturalStatus foundational work of Italian language
masterpiece of world literature
genre religious epic
visionary literature
guideInInferno Virgil
guideInParadiso Beatrice
guideInPurgatorio Virgil
influenced Italian literature
world literature
influencedBy Christian theology
Scholastic philosophy
Thomism
linked to: St. Thomas Aquinas

Virgil's Aeneid
classical literature
languageVariant Tuscan dialect
laterTitle Divina Commedia
literaryMovement Medieval literature
literaryPeriod Late Middle Ages
mainCharacter Dante
linked to: Dante Alighieri
metre terza rima
notableFeature allegorical journey of the soul toward God
detailed moral taxonomy of sins and virtues
numberOfCantiche 3
originalLanguage Italian
originalTitle Comedìa
otherGuideInParadiso Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
part Inferno
Paradiso
Purgatorio
protagonist Dante Alighieri
rhymeScheme aba bcb cdc ...
setting Hell
Paradise
linked to: Heaven

Purgatory
linked to: Purgatorio
structurePrinciple symbolic use of number three
timeOfComposition early 14th century
totalCantos 100
verseForm hendecasyllabic lines

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Homer's Odyssey influenced Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translatedWork Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
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Dante Alighieri notableWork The Divine Comedy
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The Thinker inspiredBy The Divine Comedy
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The House of Fame influencedByWork Dante's Divine Comedy
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La Comédie humaine inspiredBy Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
Mantua mentionedIn The Divine Comedy
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Hell depictedIn Dante's Divine Comedy
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The New Life of Dante relatedWork The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
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terza rima isCentralToWork Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
Paradiso partOfSeries Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
Ian Thomson (writer) notableWork Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Journey Without End
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