Dante Alighieri
Divine Comedy
The Comedy is the supreme literary achievement of the Middle Ages and arguably of all European literature — a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise that synthesizes classical learning, Christian theology, and the full range of human experience into a single architectonic poem.
Key works
- Divine Comedy~1308–1321— Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
- Vita Nuova~1294— Beatrice and the new life of love
- De Vulgari Eloquentia~1304— Defense of the vernacular