Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy

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allegorical poem epic poem

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is a monumental Italian epic poem that narrates the poet’s allegorical journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, exploring themes of sin, redemption, and divine justice.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form Occurrences
Divine Comedy 0
Dante's Divine Comedy 3
The Divine Comedy 3

Statements (53)

Predicate Object
instanceOf allegorical poem ⓘ
epic poem ⓘ
approximateEndOfComposition c. 1320 ⓘ
approximateStartOfComposition c. 1308 ⓘ
author Dante Alighieri ⓘ
cantosInInferno 34 ⓘ
cantosInParadiso 33 ⓘ
cantosInPurgatorio 33 ⓘ
centralTheme divine justice ⓘ
free will ⓘ
grace ⓘ
love ⓘ
redemption ⓘ
sin ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Italy ⓘ
culturalStatus foundational work of Italian language ⓘ
masterpiece of world literature ⓘ
genre religious epic ⓘ
visionary literature ⓘ
guideInInferno Virgil ⓘ
guideInParadiso Beatrice ⓘ
guideInPurgatorio Virgil ⓘ
influenced Italian literature ⓘ
world literature ⓘ
influencedBy Christian theology ⓘ
Scholastic philosophy ⓘ
St. Thomas Aquinas ⓘ
surface form: Thomism

Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
classical literature ⓘ
languageVariant Tuscan dialect ⓘ
laterTitle Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Divina Commedia
literaryMovement Medieval literature ⓘ
literaryPeriod Late Middle Ages ⓘ
mainCharacter Dante Alighieri ⓘ
surface form: Dante
metre terza rima ⓘ
notableFeature allegorical journey of the soul toward God ⓘ
detailed moral taxonomy of sins and virtues ⓘ
numberOfCantiche 3 ⓘ
originalLanguage Italian ⓘ
originalTitle Comedìa ⓘ
otherGuideInParadiso Saint Bernard of Clairvaux ⓘ
part Inferno ⓘ
Paradiso ⓘ
Purgatorio ⓘ
protagonist Dante Alighieri ⓘ
rhymeScheme aba bcb cdc ... ⓘ
setting Hell ⓘ
Heaven ⓘ
surface form: Paradise

Purgatorio ⓘ
surface form: Purgatory
structurePrinciple symbolic use of number three ⓘ
timeOfComposition early 14th century ⓘ
totalCantos 100 ⓘ
verseForm hendecasyllabic lines ⓘ

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hell → depictedIn → Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dante's Divine Comedy
Homer's Odyssey → influenced → Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy ⓘ
Virgil's Aeneid → influenced → Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dante's Divine Comedy
The House of Fame → influencedByWork → Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dante's Divine Comedy
La Comédie humaine → inspiredBy → Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy ⓘ
The Thinker → inspiredBy → Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy → laterTitle → Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy self-linksurface differs ⓘ
subject surface form: Divine Comedy
this entity surface form: Divina Commedia
Mantua → mentionedIn → Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri → notableWork → Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Divine Comedy
The New Life of Dante → relatedWork → Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow → translatedWork → Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy ⓘ