🇮🇹 The Divine Comedy

Dante's epic poem journey through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven; a masterpiece of world literature

Italy 1320 World Classics

📚 Key Facts

14,233-line allegorical poem by Dante Alighieri written 1308–1320, divided into Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

Guided first by Roman poet Virgil, then by his beloved Beatrice through the afterlife

Established Tuscan dialect as the standard Italian literary language; considered the greatest work of Italian literature

Dante wrote it entirely in Italian (not Latin) — a revolutionary choice that shaped the Italian language itself