The Divine Comedy

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The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia Italian pronunciation: [diviːna kommːdja]) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature[1] and one of the greatest works of world literature.[2] The poems imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval worldview 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.[3] It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

The narrative takes as its literal subject the state of the soul after death and presents an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment or reward,[4] and describes Dantes travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven.[5] Allegorically the poem represents the souls journey towards God,[6] beginning with the recognition.....

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저자(글) Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Italian: [dante alijːri]), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri[note 1] and often referred to simply as Dante (/dːnte, dænte, dænti/,[2][3] also US: /dːnti/;[4] c.1265 14 September 1321), was an Italian[a] poet, writer and philosopher.[6] His Divine Comedy, originally called Comeda (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio,[7] is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.[8][9]

Dante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, which was accessible only to the most educated readers. His De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular) was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. His use of the Tuscan dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and Divine Comedy helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language. His .....