In 1316, Dante dedicated to Cangrande della Scala the first canto of the Paradiso, on which he worked up to the final years of his life. Some historical references in the first canticle suggest that the Inferno was probably written by the end of 1309, while other historical information in the second canticle indicates that the Purgatorio was finished between 13. Of the two dates now considered most probable, 13-1307, this latter seems most convincing, given that between 13 Dante was busy writing two other works ( De vulgari eloquentia and Il Convivio), which he interrupted when the demanding work on the Divine Comedy began.

Certainly we should reject the hypotheses that a) Dante began writing the poem in honor of Beatrice before he went into exile and then finished it, after his sentence, starting in 1306, and b) that the Divine Comedy was begun after the death of Henry VII in 1313. The poet tells in the first person his travel through the three realms of the dead, lasting during the Easter Triduum in the spring of 1300.It has not yet been possible to establish precisely the year when Dante began writing the Divine Comedy, thus we have to rely on what we know about his life and on elements internal to the work. Milla The Divine Comedy More images Tracklist Credits (11) Henry Marquez Art Direction Mark Holden Co-producer Carla Leighton Design Don Rubin Executive-Producer Arma Andon Management Patrice Lazareff Mixed By Assisted By Show more credits. The very first canto serves as an introduction to the poem and is generally not considered to be part of the first cantica, bringing the total number of cantos to 100. The Divine Comedy is composed of three canticas (or 'cantiche') - Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise) - composed each of 33 cantos (or 'canti'). A culmination of the medieval world-view of the afterlife, it establishes the Tuscan dialect in which it is written as the Italian standard, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened 'Divina' by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, the last great work of literature of the Middle Ages and the first great work of the Renaissance. Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) Download cover art Download CD case insert The Divine Comedy

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