DANTE ALIGHIERI1265-1321

Born in Florence c.

Died and Buried in Ravenna

His Divine Comedy, originally called Commediaby the author and later nicknamed Divina by Boccaccio, is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

The Divine Comedy is broken up into three main sections

PARADISO PURGATORIO INFERNO

Dante is guided on a journey by the ancient Greek poetVirgil and a former love Beatrice.

Virgil – Ancient Roman Poet from Augustan Period

Beatrice Takes over as guide from the Latin poetVirgil because, as a pagan, Virgil cannot enterParadise and because, being the incarnations of beatific love, As her name implies, it is Beatrice who leads into The Beatific vision.

PARADISO

Paradiso

The Sun-Glorified Souls1868

Paradiso The Empyrean1868

Paradiso Jupiter1868

PURGATORIO

Inspired by the second book of Dante's Divine Comedy (the first being Inferno), Purgatory symbolizes our need to face our fears and overcome life's obstacles.  Looking at this, we are reminded that it is through opposition that we find growth.

Purgatorio: The Eagle1868

PurgatorioMarco the Lombard1868

Canto XXXII

INFERNO

Inferno - Gate of Hell 1857

InfernoBertram de Born1857

Inferno Farinata1857

GUSTAVE DORE

In the midway of thisour mortal life, I foundMe in a gloomy wood, Astray

Canto 1, lines 1 & 2

1867

Thomas Aquinas names the learned and the Wise to Dante and Beatrice: Albertus Magnus, Gratian, Peter Lombard, Solomon, Dionysius the Areopagite, Orosius, Boethius, Isidore of Seville, Bede, Richard of St. Victor, Siger of Brabant.Paradiso X

fraudulent counselors, botticelli

William Blake - Whirlwind of Lovers Canto 5- the carnal

Canto XIII

Canto 1 - 1-90

Canto XXVI

Inferno, Canto XXXIV (detail) 1480s Silverpoint, completed in pen and ink Staatliche Museen, BerlinBotticelli

Sandro Botticelli worked on the illustrations to the Dante’s Divine Comedy for 20 years from 1480 to 1500. 92 drawings on sheepskin parchments survived, out of 100 in the entire series. There are 84 drawing in Kupferstichkabinett AKA Staatliche Museen in Berlin and 8 in Biblioteca Vaticana in Rome.

Inferno, Canto XXXI 1480s Silverpoint on parchment, completed in pen and ink, 320 x 470 mm

Inferno, Canto XVIII 1480s Coloured drawing on parchment, 320 x 470 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Infernoadam and sinon the greek 

Blake, falsifiers

hell and paradise carel schouten

To view more illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy

http://www.dalionline.com/divinecomedy.html

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For translations of Dante’s Divine Comedyhttp://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.htmlBy Longfellowhttp://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/dante/dante_contents.htm

By James Finn Cotter

http://www.italianstudies.org/comedy/index.htmhttp://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/dante/dante_contents.htm

http://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.html (translations) http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/comedy/ (translations) http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/ (great site with images) http://www.enotes.com/divine-comedy