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    WORLD

    BICOL STATE COLLEGE OF APPLIED


    LITERATURE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

    Divine
    Comedy
    REPORTERS:
    BOLETIC, JOSHUA SB.
    BIDOL, SHENE CLARISE M.
    The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina
    Commedia)
    -is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri
    between 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely
    considered the preeminent work of Italian
    literature, and is seen as one of the greatest
    works of world literature.
    It is divided into three parts,
    Inferno, Purgatorio,
    Paradiso.
    On the surface, the
    poem describes
    Dante's travels
    through Hell,
    Purgatory, and
    Heaven; but at a
    deeper level, it
    represents
    allegorically the
    The work was
    originally simply titled
    Comedìa and was
    later christened
    Divina by Giovanni
    Boccaccio.
    The Divine Comedy is
    composed of 14,233
    lines that are divided
    into three canticas –
    Inferno (Hell),
    Purgatorio (Purgatory),
    and Paradiso
    (Paradise) — each
    consisting of 33
    FIRST PART:

    INFERNO
    The poem tells of
    Dante's journey
    through the three
    realms of the dead,
    lasting from the
    night before Good
    Friday to the
    Wednesday after
    Easter in the spring
    of 1300.
    Dante is at last
    rescued by
    Virgil, and the
    two of them
    begin their
    journey to the
    underworld.
    Each sin's
    punishment in
    Inferno is a
    contrapasso, a
    symbolic
    instance of
    poetic justice;
    SECOND PART:
    PURGATORIO
    Having survived the
    depths of Hell, Dante
    and Virgil ascend out of
    the undergloom, to the
    Mountain of Purgatory
    on the far side of the
    world.
    Beatrice, Dante's ideal
    woman, guides him
    through PURGATORY.
    Beatrice was a Florentine
    woman whom he had met
    in childhood and admired
    from afar in the mode of
    the then-fashionable
    courtly love tradition which
    is highlighted in Dante's
    earlier work La Vita Nuova.
    The core seven sins within
    purgatory correspond to a
    moral scheme of love
    perverted, subdivided into
    three groups
    corresponding to excessive
    love (Lust, Gluttony, Greed),
    deficient love (Sloth), and
    malicious love (Wrath, Envy,
    Pride).
    THIRD PART:
    PARADISO
    After an initial ascension,
    Beatrice guides Dante
    through the
    nine celestial spheres of
    Heaven.
    While the structures of
    the Inferno and
    Purgatorio were based on
    different classifications of
    sin, the structure of the
    Paradiso is based on the
    four cardinal virtues and
    the three theological
    virtues.
    FAITH
    HOPE
    LOVE
    The ninth circle, or
    Premium Mobile
    (corresponding to
    Medieval astronomy of
    Geocentricism)contains
    the angels, creatures
    never poisoned by
    original sin.
    Topping them all is the Empyrean that contains
    the essence of God, completing the 9 fold
    division to 10.
    Dante meets and
    converses with several
    great saints of the
    Church, including
    Thomas Aquinas,
    Bonaventure, Saint
    Peter, and St. John
    The Divine Comedy
    finishes with Dante
    seeing the Triune God.
    In a flash of
    understanding, which he
    cannot express, Dante finally
    understands the mystery of
    Christ's divinity and
    humanity, and his soul
    becomes aligned with God's
    love:

    But already my desire and


    my will were being turned
    like a wheel, all at one speed,
    by the Love which moves the
    sun and the other stars.

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