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What is "The Divine Comedy" about......I know it deals deeply with spirituality or something....and I am a most spiritual person...I really appreciate any info

Answer 1

dude!
The divine comedy is Dante Alghieri's
trilogy about his journey through the afterlife.
The Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso.
The Inferno at least is worth a read. It is Dantes
view on the fate of people doomed in the afterlife
including the fate of many historical figures.

Answer 2

Oh it's definitely or something...

Dante Alighieri wrote the "The Divine Comedy" in the first part of the 1300's it is one of the first works of what could be called "inspired fiction", part political and religious satire or comedy. It takes the reader on a journey through the three levels of the afterlife. If you know who the important religious and political figures of the day is - it's a damning satire (sorry for the pun) commenting on the hypocracies of the day.

The closest modern analogy might be something like a highbrow biblical version of "America the book" - by Jon Stewart and company.

A very strong argument could be made that with respect to the modern concept of hell, Dante literally wrote the book. When Pat Robertson is quoting about hellfire and pits of fire or demons. He's not quoting the Bible he's talking Dante.

The actual Bible mentions hell only sparingly and never really as a place of punishment where nations and suprisingly depending on your read, people (generally) would be separated from the Lord's presence. Demons from hell or torments and pits of molten lava are not mentioned.

Since it is best read and can be approached as a humorous commentary, unfortunately being 600+ years old we have problems getting the jokes and don't know all the inside jokes. It would be like someone from 2900AD trying to get all the jokes in the Comedy Central book mentioned above.

Although each section (if I remember correctly is of equal length It definintely doesn't seem that way)
The modern, cliffs version might go something like this in reverse order.

Heaven - very nice, some people here, you don't know and never heard of , puffy white clouds...some angels....the occasional saint....we're informed that Jesus is reportedly around here somewhere, - overall very pleasant. (described in about 10 pages)

Purgatory - Some of your loved ones will be here for a very very long time and if everything goes right for you - you will only be here for most of an eternity.
Over on the left we have several areas of generic shopping and a food court.
The bus leaving for heaven arrives promptly at 2pm, the day after the kingdom comes. Please remember to take your packages and throw out any trash on your way out. (described in about 15 pages).

Hell - Hell is luridly described in what - else - gory detail. Everyone you ever heard of is here. Most everyone you will know is here, you could very likely end up here anyway. The tortures and persons involved in the tortures were described in detail and at great length. There are multiple levels of hell and it goes on for ever and ever from Pits of Fire to demons special tortures fitting each sin , and all descriptions of horrors and gruesome traumas. (described in about 300 pages).

There is a famous sign above the door to hell

"Abandon all hope - ye who enter here.",

Which I once saw posted over the door to a math class at finals.

Answer 3

The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, the last great work of literature of the Middle Ages and the first great work of the Renaissance, and one of the greatest works of world literature.

The Divine Comedy is composed of three canticas (or "cantiche") — Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise) — composed each of 33 cantos (or "canti"). The very first canto serves as an introduction to the poem and is generally not considered to be part of the first cantica, bringing the total number of cantos to 100. The first cantica, Inferno, is by far the most famous of the three, and is often published separately under the title Dante's Inferno. As a part of the whole literary work, the first canto serves as an introduction to the entire Divine Comedy, making each of the cantiche 33 canti long. The number 3 is prominent in the work, represented here by the length of each cantica (also, three is the sacred number of the trinity and the rhyme scheme is believed by many critics to imply that in order to go forward, one must go back). Also, that they add up to 100 canti is not accidental. The verse scheme used, terza rima, is the hendecasyllable (line of eleven syllables), with the lines composing tercets according to the rhyme scheme ABA BCB CDC . . . YZY Z.

The poet tells in the first person his travel through the three realms of the dead, lasting during the Easter Triduum in the spring of 1300. His guide through Hell and Purgatory is the Latin poet Virgil, author of The Aeneid, and the guide through Paradise is Beatrice, Dante's ideal of a perfect woman. Beatrice was a real Florentine woman whom he met in childhood and admired from afar in the mode of the then-fashionable courtly love tradition.

In Northern Italy's political struggle between Guelphs and Ghibellines, Dante was part of the Guelphs, who in general favored the Papacy over the Holy Roman Emperor. Florence's Guelphs split into factions around 1300: the White Guelphs, who opposed secular rule by Pope Boniface VIII and who wished to preserve Florence's independence, and the Black Guelphs, who favored the Pope's control of Florence. Dante was among the White Guelphs who were exiled from Florence in 1302 by the Lord-Mayor Cante dei Gabrielli di Gubbio, after troops under Charles of Valois entered the city, at the request of Boniface and in alliance with the Blacks. This exile, which lasted the rest of Dante's life, shows its influence in many parts of the Comedy, from prophecies of Dante's exile to Dante's views of politics to the damnation of some of his opponents.

In Hell and Purgatory, Dante shares in the sin and the penitence respectively. The last word in each of the three parts of The Divine Comedy is "stars."

Answer 4

the divine comedy is a movie (Jesus meets Abbot and Costello)