Oct 12, 2008
The Divine Comedy | The Divine Comedy
At a glance:
- Author: Dante
- First Published: 1320
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: The Friday before Easter, 1300
- 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
Places Discussed
Hell. Dante begins his journey in the grim nether regions. “Abandon hope all
ye who enter in,” is inscribed on the gates of Hell. With Vergil, the most noble of pagans,
as his guide, Dante enters the concentric circles of Hell, where sinners are mired eternally in the
crimes that have brought them there. Each punishment cruelly fits the sin. Sowers of discord are
eternally rent asunder by demons; violent souls steep forever in streams of blood. There are
degrees of punishment in Hell. On the outer regions of Hell, swept perpetually by a whirlwind,
Dante...
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