![]() This epic poem was the to be written in the vernacular of the Italian people rather than in Latin. One of the world’s greatest works of literature, Dante’s Commedia revolutionized poetry and the Italian language. Raffel’s translation vividly captures the divine contrapasso, the ultimate case of the punishment the crime, in the Inferno, while fathoming the complexity of the Purgatorio and the ecstasy of the Paradiso. The Divine Comedy follows Dante the pilgrim-guided by the great Roman poet Virgil, then by the love of his life, Beatrice-as he travels downward through Hell, then upward through Purgatory in order to reach Paradise and witness the love that moves the sun and the stars. of the wildness and brutality of the woods, Dante cries out for help, and thus begins one of Western literature’s greatest epic journeys. ![]() At the midpoint of his life, during Holy Week in 1300, Dante awakes to himself in the middle of a forest so dark that the sun’s light cannot penetrate its gloom. ![]()
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