The Divine Comedy ~ Deluxe Illustrated Edition - Dante Alighieri & Gustave Doré

The Divine Comedy ~ Deluxe Illustrated Edition

By Dante Alighieri & Gustave Doré

  • Release Date: 1555-09-09
  • Genre: Classics
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The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia Italian pronunciation: [diˈviːna komˈmɛːdja]) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered 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 worldview as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

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