‘The Divine Comedy’ penned by Dante Alighieri is the greatest poem of the Middle Ages. ‘The Divine Comedy’ is an in depth portrayal of the worldly and other worldly fate of Man. Dante, originally named Durante Alighieri, was born in Florence, Italy in 1265.
The boy lost his mother when he was seven years old. Dante made use of his experiences in exile from Florence to write the epic. The poem was written in vernacular Italian, and it was titled ‘Divina Commedia’. Epics were written in Latin or Greek before the publication of ‘The Divine Comedy’. Therefore, this epic reached a wide cross section of people, and gave a fillip to literacy.
‘Convivio’ and ‘Monarchia’ are Dante’s other works. ‘Monarchia’ is in Latin, and is a work on political philosophy while ‘Convivio’ is an incomplete book of long poems.
