Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1265–1321
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A journey through hell, purgatory and paradise in a hundred cantos of interlocking rhyme, crowded with real people Dante knew, hated or mourned. Its architecture is exact down to the number of lines, yet what stays is the voices: lovers still bound together, a teacher met in fire, a guide who must turn back. It made a vernacular Italian fit for anything.