The Divine Comedy (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Dante
- First Published: 1320
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: The Friday before Easter, 1300
- Setting: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
- Genres: Poetry, Allegory, Epic, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Sin or Original sin, Adultery, Punishment, Good and evil, Forests or forestry, Hell, Fate or fatalism, Devils or demons, Middle Ages, Saints or sainthood, Treason, Mountains, Animals, dangerous, Heaven, Satan or Satanism, Fourteenth century, Baptism, Easter
- Locales: Hell, Paradise, Purgatory
Characters Discussed
Dante (DAHN-tay), the exile Florentine poet, who is halted in his path of error through the grace of the Virgin, Saint Lucy, and Beatrice, and is redeemed by his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. He learns to submerge his instinctive pity for some sinners in his recognition of the justice of God, and he frees himself of the faults of wrath and misdirected love by participating in the penance for these sins in Purgatory. He is then ready to grow in understanding and love as he moves with Beatrice nearer to the presence of God.
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Dante (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Dante (Poetry)Dante (Censorship)Dante (Short Fiction)Dante (Dictionary of World Biography)Inferno of Dante, The (Literary Annual Reviews)
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