The Divine Comedy: : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

ISBN-10: 1533079927
ISBN-13: 9781533079923
Series: The Divine Comedy
Pages: 426
Language: English
Published: 2016-05-04
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author: Dante Alighieri

Description

The Divine Comedy ) is an epic poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature[1] and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language