Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy

The divine comedy is a long italian narrative poem by dante alighieri begun c.

Dante alighieri the divine comedy. It helped establish the tuscan language in which it is written as the standard. He was born in the city of florence in the region of tuscany italy in the spring of 1265. It is usually held to be one of the world s great works of literature. Dante dante the divine comedy.

1308 and completed in 1320 a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work in italian literature and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. It is widely considered to be 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 world view as it had developed in the western church by the 14th century.

Divina commedia divine comedy la divina commedia 1 3 dante alighieri the divine comedy is a long narrative poem by dante alighieri begun c. Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature dante alighieri s poetic masterpiece the divine comedy is a moving human drama an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of hell up the arduous slopes of purgatory and on to the glorious realm of paradise the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation. Dante s years of exile were years of difficult peregrinations from one place to another as he himself repeatedly says most effectively in paradiso xvii in cacciaguida s moving lamentation that bitter is the taste of another man s bread and heavy the way up and down another man s stair.