It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval worldview as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century.
It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. The Divine Comedy ( Italian: Divina Commedia ) is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c.
