Author
Dante Alighieri
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Publisher
Sahara Publisher Books
Published
February 1892
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Published
February 1892
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The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia ) is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be 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 world-view 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.
The narrative takes as its literal subject the state of souls after death and presents an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment or reward,and describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven,while allegorically the poem represents the soul's journey towards God,beginning with the recognition and rejection of sin (Inferno), followed by the penitent Christian life (Purgatorio), which is then followed by the soul's ascent to God (Paradiso). Dante draws on medieval Roman Catholic theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy derived from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas.Consequently, the Divine Comedy has been called "the Summa in verse".In Dante's work,the pilgrim Dante is accompanied by three guides:Virgil (who represents human reason),Beatrice (who represents divine revelation,theology, faith, and grace),and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (who represents contemplative mysticism and devotion to Mary).17] Erich Auerbach said Dante was the first writer to depict human beings as the products of a specific time, place and circumstance as opposed to mythic archetypes or a collection of vices and virtues; this along with the fully imagined world of the Divine Comedy, different from our own but fully visualized, suggests that the Divine Comedy could be said to have inaugurated modern fiction
Author
Dante Alighieri
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Sahara Publisher Books
Published
February 1892
Weight
940g
Dimensions
153 x 229 x 34 mm
ISBN
9782382262474
ISBN-10
2382262478
Eden Code
5532681
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Author/Creator: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9782382262474
Publisher: Sahara Publisher Books
Release Date: February 1892
Weight: 940g
Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 34 mm
Eden Code: 5532681