The Divine Comedy: An Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321 and widely considered to be the pre-eminent work in Italian literature

The Divine Comedy 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[1] and one of the greatest works of world literature.[2] 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 t...