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The Divine Comedy

By: Dante
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
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The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem by Dante Alighieri that describes the the pilgrim Dante’s travels through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso). This trio of books, or cantiche, is one example of the number three as a theme throughout the work. Each book consists of 33 cantos, which—added to an introductory canto—totals 100. Each cantica follows a pattern of nine phases plus one for a total of ten: nine circles of hell plus Lucifer, nine rings of Mount Purgatory plus the garden of Eden, nine celestial bodies of Paradise followed by the Empyrean essence of God.

Widely considered the preeminent work in Italian literature, it helped establish the Tuscan language as the standardized Italian language. This edition follows the H.F. Cary English translation.

Public Domain (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature Poetry Classics Solar System Middle Ages Comedy
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Dante is overrated merely because this is from history and was considered original then. It is awful stuff except people that call themselves authorities repeat it is great just because other such people have said so, and then, like lemmings, it trickles down with such a counterfeit halo to the simple brainwashed masses - like the emperor's new clothes: one is pressured to claim it is great because of peer pressure rather than genuine merit. Moreover, the foolish extremist arrogant and parochial Dante plagiarised the "miraj" and yet no one seems to want to acknowledge this; as is usual of course of the envious - and thus it isn't even original. Unoriginal, outdated, boring and unsophisticated pedestrian spurious vapid trite banality. Pure tripe.

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