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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). 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.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length12 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byAnna Cohen, James Taylor
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 1, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credits
26Inferno XXV
2Inferno I
27Inferno XXVI
3Inferno II
28Inferno XXVII
4Inferno III
29Inferno XXVIII
5Inferno IV
30Inferno XXIX
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6Inferno V
31Inferno XXX
7Inferno VI
32Inferno XXXI
8Inferno VII
33Inferno XXXII
9Inferno VIII
34Inferno XXXIII
10Inferno IX
35Inferno XXXIV
11Inferno X
36Purgatorio I
12Inferno XI
37Purgatorio II
13Inferno XII
38Purgatorio III
14Inferno XIII
39Purgatorio IV
15Inferno XIV
40Purgatorio V
16Inferno XV
41Purgatorio VI
17Inferno XVI
42Purgatorio VII
18Inferno XVII
43Purgatorio VIII
19Inferno XVIII
44Purgatorio IX
20Inferno XIX
45Purgatorio X
21Inferno XX
46Purgatorio XI
22Inferno XXI
47Purgatorio XII
23Inferno XXII
48Purgatorio XIII
24Inferno XXIII
49Purgatorio XIV
25Inferno XXIV
50Purgatorio XV
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