This poem provides examples of the following: An ever-growing archive of "sightings" of Dante in contemporary culture can be found at Dante Today There's also invaluable illustrations from Danteworlds from the epic's seven centuries worth of Fan Art. Translations of the Comedy from Italian can be found all over the place online: there's the plain-and-annotated World of Dante, the poetic Digital Dante, the scholarly Dartmouth Dante Lab, the navigable Princeton Dante Project, and Dante Online, which exists. The Comedy's influence has led a few to mistake the Circles of Hell for Biblical doctrine, lending the name to Word of Dante. Essentially, every portrayal of Hell (from Milton to Lewis) owes something to Dante, who himself drew from the Gospels and the poems of Virgil, Statius, and Ovid. The first part, the Inferno, is the best-known and most often retold and alluded to in modern media, with adaptations including a sci-fi novel, a manga, and a video game. In fact, it was added later by people - specifically Giovanni Boccaccio note who greatly admired Dante and wrote an early biography of him and Gustave Doré, who famously illustrated the story in the 19th century. Every good of humanity is on display here in service of that great Good at the end of the journey, the Divine Love.ĭante called his masterpiece merely Comedy as a perhaps-ironic nod to its good ending and how it was written in the vernacular the adjective "Divine" does not refer to the work's religious setting.
Purgatorio: Having escaped Hell, Dante and Virgil scale the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory to meet Beatrice, the most beautiful of the saints.The two poets see the harshest torments imaginable and worse: the people who deserve them. Inferno: Having lost his way in life, Dante descends through the nine Circles of Hell with Virgil, the most virtuous of the damned.
It describes the author's pilgrimage through the three realms of the afterlife as he learns how we can find lasting joy in God.Įach part ("cantica") of the poem is dedicated to one of the three realms, and is in turn subdivided into 33 chapters ("cantos") note Technically, Inferno actually has 34 cantos so that the poem's total comes out as 100, but Canto I takes place in the world of the living and technically acts as the prologue of the story: The Divine Comedy is a three-part epic written by Dante Alighieri between 13. Or perhaps more accurately, the poem that invented Italian. The world’s first poem written in Italian.
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