The Divine Comedy

Definitely worth the read more people should know about this seminal work and its lasting impact on global literature.

Love it the 3 line writing style is great and I wish more old books used it

A very interesting book to read I've been wanting to obtain a copy and read it since a long time

Excellent! Lucid and clear

Dante Alighieri is a consistingly politician Person and looks like he is subscribing to a religious climate, but he is not. His looks are those of the pupil of Philosophy and rather the pupil of concise Learning, of respect to his classmates but also the person that has so many a lot to say about them and their Whereabouts. The Divine Comedy is simply a great Work of Art. Art in it's purest and Divinest Form. Art in the form that it doesn't dictate the medium and form of the writing but simply describing his work I would state him in the most gullible persons of his Clan. And by Clan I mean of course the White Guelfs. But it is time to see the work step by step.The first part is Inferno and is talking about of course Hell and riding through, like Riders on the Storm by The Doors a favourite group of mine that should be illustrating the reading of it. Hell is a storm for us people of knowledge and information that keeps coming back and back like images of a problematics that is as popular as the war on Iraq nowadays. It is the walk of Dante and his great teacher that have never met Virgil. He is just a Wannabe Poet that in his experience is on an expedition to prove himself for his belief in the work of a much earlier Latin poet. There it is unlikely not to meet with the she-wolf. The she-wolf is the most representable beast in my liking and the perfect picture of violence and raw activism against the war-like face of Death, Destruction and what it comes as pulling these two, the Devil.The second part is Purgatorio. In Purgatorio Dante and his lead after coming through what a rulistic search, see Inferno and where each is punished, offers, finds a different point on God and the angels that protect Him. Inferno is death and demons, Purgatorio is a ship that gives his way through a place, a no-man's land, the neverland that all the forgiven look and understand what they should face to fly away to the next of their steps. Their inner childism that tends to the Skies. They will not all be forgotten from what the society of politics, which is in question, just wants, because the want, the need is there but it is not Redemption.Last but not least is Paradiso. Where the eagles of the ancients fly free and dare to step up to what is divine. Where the angelic faces gather around Mother and most of all where Beatrice who is in the search through all the way from Inferno and Purgatorio to Paradiso, gives her Eroticism to Dante. Gives him the Hope, that The Ancient Hellenes have written " Ero anikate mahan ", that means Eroticism wins all Wars. And she wins the Fight but does not Give In to Dante. She remains to the Skies and the Hope will be with Dante who leaves Virgil, his most profound Way to Poetry and Knowledge, there with the Divine Eagles and Nymphs and Gods, which the Latin mind state as Angels, to understand the Way the Mind of hers work for Love.All in All it is a work which understands the Way God or the Devil or the Purgatoric creatures like to deal with things but only through the way Society on earth deal with the Mind and Need for a better Place for them. All of us...