Written in the early fourteenth century, The Divine Comedy is Dante Alighieri’s towering masterpiece — an allegorical journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Heaven (Paradiso), guided first by the poet Virgil and then by Beatrice, Dante’s idealized love. Combining medieval theology, classical learning, contemporary political commentary, and extraordinary imaginative vision, the poem is one of the supreme achievements of world literature.
This text is available in English translation from the original Italian. Poets from Milton to T. S. Eliot have called Dante the greatest of all writers. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg and begin the eternal journey.