The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy

La Divina Commedia #1-3

Dante Alighieri with Charles Eliot Norton (Translator)

268 pages first pub 1320 (editions)

fiction classics poetry challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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The "Divine Comedy" was entitled by Dante himself merely "Commedia," meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate between the sustained nobility of tragedy, and the popular tone of elegy. The word had no dramatic implication at that time, ...

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