the divine comedy

     

In this 3-part work, the main character encounters Nimrod, Ulysses, Muhammad & Thomas Aquinas

Trivia about the divine comedy

  • Eternal laugh riot "La Divina Commedia"
  • In this Dante work, the poet is given a tour through hell, purgatory & paradise
  • Poet goes to hell; then purgatory (where he meets an old flame); then heaven!
  • This 1321 poem of more than 14,000 lines details a journay to Hell, Purgatory & Heaven
  • This 14th century work is divided into 3 sections: "Inferno", "Purgatorio" & "Paradiso"
  • The poet & his buddy Virgil spend some time in Hell, a fate you avoided by buying our version of this classic
  • Franz Liszt's symphony based on this work includes the movements "Inferno" & "Purgatorio"
  • "Dante's Inferno", which is loosely based on this 14th century poem, involves a hellish journey to find Beatrice
  • (1300s)"Turn, Beatrice!...O turn thy saintly sight on this thy faithful one"
  • c. 1300:A poet tours Hell, Purgatory & Heaven

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