Title: The Divine Comedy

(Originally La commedia, later named La divina commedia)

By Aligheri Dante

Publishing Info:

Genre: Epic Poem

Sub-genre: - Devotioinal Reading

Nationality: - Roman / Italian

Time Period: Middle Ages

Rated: - A+

Use: World Literature

Location: - Dr. Rearick's Office, home and MVNC's J-Drive
 
 

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Comments:  Here is a work whose span is so great that it is difficult for me to even imagine the kind of mind that put it together.  Massive in scope yet minute in detail the Divine Comedy stands out as an untterly unqiue achievment in Western Literature.

This great work of medieval literature is a  profound Christian vision of man's temporal and eternal destiny. On its most personal level, it draws on the poet's own experience of exile from his native city of Florence; on its most comprehensive level, it may be  read as an allegory, taking the form of a journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise. The poem amazes by its array of learning, its penetrating and comprehensive analysis of contemporary problems, and its inventiveness of language and imagery.