The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (completed c. 1320) is a narrative poem in three parts (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) describing Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, guided first by Virgil and then by Beatrice, encompassing medieval Catholic cosmology.
Greatest literary work of the medieval period; encyclopedic synthesis of Catholic theology, classical tradition, and medieval philosophy in vernacular Italian.
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