Divine Comedy

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 95. Chapters: Alichino (devil), Barbariccia, Ciampolo, Cocytus, Contrapasso, Corso Donati, Dante's Inferno (1924 film), Dante's Inferno (1935 film), Dante's Inferno (2007 film), Dante's Inferno (video game), Dante's Satan, Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in popular culture, Demon Lord Dante, Dis (Divine Comedy), Eunoe, Filippo Argenti, Forese Donati, Inferno (Dante), L'Inferno (1911 film), List of characters in Dante's Inferno (video game), List of cultural references in Divine Comedy, Malacoda, Malebolge, Malebranche (Divine Comedy), Pape Satan, pape Satan aleppe, Paradiso (Dante), Pia de' Tolomei, Pia de' Tolomei (painting), Piccarda, Purgatorio, Raphel mai ameche zabi almi, Scarmiglione, The Dante Quartet, The Divine Comedy (Smith), Vanni Fucci. Excerpt: The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts (or canticas): the Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos. Set at Easter 1300, the poem describes the living poet's journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise. Throughout the poem, Dante refers to people and events from Classical and Biblical history and mythology, the history of Christianity, and the Europe of the Medieval period up to and including his own day. A knowledge of at least the most important of these references can aid in understanding the poem fully. For ease of reference, the cantica names are abbreviated to Inf., Purg., and Par. Roman numerals are used to identify cantos and Arabic numerals to identify lines. This means that Inf. X, 123 refers to line 123 in Canto X (or 10) of the Inferno and Par. XXV, 27 refers to line 27 in Canto XXV (or 25) of the Paradiso. The line numbers refer to the original Italian text. Boldface links indicate that the...