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The Divine Comedy is an epic poem (a poem that is very long, like a story) written by Dante Alighieri. It is about a trip through the afterlife. The poem is three parts long - the three parts are Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise, or Heaven). Inferno is the most famous section of the poem. The poem is about the travels of a man through Christian hell (place for bad people in Christianity), purgatory (place for people who have been bad but not bad enough to go to hell), and heaven (place for people who lived by the rules of Christianity). Note that comedy does not mean funny, yet more like not ending with a bad thing.
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The Divine Comedy is a highly symbolic poem. Each canto can contain many alternate meanings. The structure of the poem is likewise quite complex, with mathematical patterns arching throughout the work. But what has made the poem as great as it is are the particularly human qualities of the work: Dante's skillful delineation of the characters he encounters in hell, purgatory and paradise, his bitter denunciations of Florence and Italian politics, and his powerful poetic imagination.
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The Divine Comedy is composed of three canticas (Ital. pl. "cantiche") — Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise) — composed each of 33 cantos (Ital. pl. "canti"). An initial canto serves as an introduction to the poem and is generally not considered to be part of the first cantica, bringing the total number of cantos to 100. The number 3 is prominent in the work, represented here by the length of each cantica. DED.
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The Divine Comedy was probably written between 1306 and 1321, although Dante may have begun writing the poem as early as 1300. Most of the poem was written between 1315 and 1321. The poem won a large audience even though copies of it had to be handwritten. (The printing press had not yet been invented.) The Divine Comedy ranks as one of the great literary masterpieces of all time alongside the epics of Homer and Vergil and the greatest plays of Shakespeare.
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Poem in three parts written from 1307 to 1321, the Divine Comedy is a masterpiece of Italian Literature. Each part is composed of 33 cantos: Dante guided by Virgil through the nine circles of Inferno; at the top of the mountain Purgatory, he meets Beatrice who takes him to Paradise.
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Dante's main work is La Divina Comedia (The Divine Comedy). This allegorical and mystical poem contains 100 cantos (songs) with 14,230 verses of poetry in terza-rima (a verse form consisting of three line stanzas with an interlaced rhyme scheme). This form of verse originated in Italy, and was later used among poets of other languages, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838), August von Platen (1796-1835) and Hugo von Hofmannstahl (1874-1929).
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