The Dream in Purgatorio IX
Dante Alighier
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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, written between 1308 and the year of his death in 1321 is considered the greatest epic poem in Italian literature. This Christian allegory about the soul's journey through the afterlife bridges the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, and has had a profound influence on both Western literature and Christian dogma (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante's_Inferno).Dante describes his journey through the land of the dead in a first person narrative written in terza rima (lines of eleven syllables with a strict rhyme scheme) consisting of the Inferno (Hell), the Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise). Accompanied by the Roman poet Virgil in the first two books, and his idealized perfect woman Beatrice in the last, Dante reveals a fantasmagoric underworld landscape peopled by sinners from the classical world of Greek and Roman history and myth, as well as contemporary figures from his own day. Filled with numerology, elaborate symbolism, and references obscure to our modern minds, his work requires scholarly commentary to be understood, although the universality and timelessness of his psychologica
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