About “The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri”
The Divine Comedy is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, composed between approximately 1308 and 1321. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, and presents an imaginative vision of the afterlife reflective of the medieval Western Church worldview. The work played a key role in establishing the Tuscan language as the standard for the Italian language.