Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy Inferno

Statue of dante alighieri on the piazza della signoria in verona italy.

Dante alighieri the divine comedy inferno. The plot of the divine comedy is simple. Dante was born into a middle class florentine family. At the age of thirty five on the night of good friday in the year 1300 dante finds himself lost in a dark wood and full of fear. He completed inferno which depicts an allegorical journey through hell around 1314.

A man generally assumed to be dante himself is miraculously enabled to undertake an ultramundane journey which leads him to visit the souls in hell purgatory and paradise. Dante alighieri is the author of the divine comedy. He has two guides. The papacy and the holy roman empire hre.

He sees a sun drenched mountain in the distance and he tries to climb it but three beasts a leopard a lion and a she wolf stand in his way. The inferno tells the journey of dante through hell guided by the ancient roman poet virgil. All of dante s work on the comedy later called the divine comedy and consisting of three books. Each claimed to be of divine origin and to be indispensable to the welfare of mankind.

Background of the divine comedy. He is a famous italian epic poet. Inferno purgatorio and paradiso was done after his exile. In other words sin has obstructed his path to god.

It is widely considered to be the pre eminent work in italian literature 1 and one of the greatest works of world literature. In inferno dante explores the nature. Italian for hell is the first part of italian writer dante alighieri s 14th century epic poem divine comedy. The inferno is the first part of dante alighieri s poem the divine comedy which chronicles dante s journey to god and is made up of the inferno hell purgatorio purgatory and paradiso paradise.

Nicknick ko istock via getty images. Dante roamed from court to court in italy writing and occasionally lecturing until his death from a sudden illness in 1321. He fell in love with a girl named beatrice whom he saw only twice in his life but she was his inspiration for the legendary masterpieces. The divine comedy is the allegorical record of dante s quest to overcome sin and find god s love.

Divina commedia diˈviːna komˈmɛːdja is a long italian narrative poem by dante alighieri begun c. The divine comedy italian. It is followed by purgatorio and paradiso. Inferno purgatory and paradise.

The divine comedy is split up into three books. Thirty five years old at the beginning of the story dante the character as opposed to the poet has lost his way on the true path of life. 1308 and completed in 1320 a year before his death in 1321.