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Dante Alighieri
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Many consider Dante’s Divine Comedy the supreme literary work not only of medieval Christendom but of the Christian faith in general, rivaled only by Milton’s Paradise Lost. Never has a poet given a more compelling vsion of Christian love than Dante in his Comedy. This massive and intricate structure of almost fifteen thousand lines, or one hundred “cantos” is divided into three large sections– Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso— that correspond to Dante’s conception of the states of souls. …
Each main section of the poem portrays a different stage in this human understanding of God’s love: the Inferno reveals the most horrid consequences of love perverted or defective; the Purgatorio depicts flawed souls actively seeking perfection in love; and the Paradiso shows the absolute happiness of perfect love achieved.
-Larry Allums, Dante: The Divine Comedy. In Louise Cowan & Os Guinness (Eds.), Invitation to the Classics.
Love
Sin
Punishment
God
Man
Religion
Eternity
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Rhetoric
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