Divine Comedy, The Years EAN: 9780071409445

EAN: 9780071409445

Author(s): Tony Yeshin

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Divine Comedy, The Years EAN: 9780071409445Described variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and, because of the author's evangelical purpose, the `fifth Gospel', the Divine Comedy is central to the culture of the west. The poem is a spiritual autobiography in the form of a journey the poet travels from the dark circles of the Inferno, up the mountain of Purgatory, where Virgil, his guide leaves him to encounter Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise. Dante conceived the poem as