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The Divine Comedy

Winston Churchill once said: “If you are going through hell, keep going.” If you were to describe Dante’s Divine Comedy as simply as possible you would use this quote. However, Dante’s Divine Comedy has never been that simple. Sure, it is about religion and hell and heaven. But it is also about political ideas. The way spirituality and politics commingle in Dante’s world has interested literature fiends and political theorists alike. So what exactly is Dante’s Divine Comedy? How did Dante’s everyday life affect this piece of literature? And most importantly, what were the political ideas Dante managed to weave into his story powered by religion?
Dante’s Divine Comedy is a narrative about how Dante goes through hell and finally manages to get to heaven. Dante recognizes his sins and goes from misery to happiness in three stages, “Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.” The poem is designed “to remove those living in this life from a state of misery, and bring them......


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