Dante Aligieri

Comprised of three books - Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso - Dante's The Divine Comedy follows Dante Alighieri's epic poems through the different sections of the afterlife: hell, purgatory, and heaven. The Divine Comedy began as a project in 1308 and ended in 1320, the year before Dante's death. Told in the first person, Dante follows the poet Virgil through the rings...