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The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri

Christianity: Faith, Scripture and Tradition

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

Dante's great poem in three parts, Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, describing the poet's journey through the realms of the Christian afterlife guided by Virgil and Beatrice. It combines medieval theology, cosmology and politics and shaped the Western imagination of hell, purgatory and heaven.

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