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The Divine Comedy

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Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy is an Italian narrative poem begun around 1308 and completed around 1321.

It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

The poem discusses the state of the soul after death and presents an image of divine justice, describing Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.

It is an allegory representing the soul's journey towards God, drawing on medieval Catholic theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy.

The work is considered one of the greatest in Italian literature and Western literature, and it helped establish the Tuscan language as the standardized Italian language.

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Mentioned in 84 episodes

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as a reference for her book on integrity.

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Jiang Xueqin

as a timeless Western classic his students value deeply.

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Dominic Sandbrook

, referencing the depiction of usurers weighed down by bags of gold in hell.

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John Price

when explaining Dante's letter about how the book can be read from several different perspectives.

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John Dickson

as a book describing nine circles of hell.

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Mark Vernon

as a source of inspiration.

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Tyler Cowen

as a literary reference in 'Life and Fate', possibly alluding to the novel's depiction of suffering and the descent into hell.

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Tyler Cowen

as a literary reference in 'Life and Fate', comparing the novel's depiction of suffering to Dante's 'Inferno'.

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James Harkin

as the inspiration for Dante's description of hell, based on the Devil's Valley landscape.

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Sheehan Quirke

as someone who writes very beautifully on love with tenderness and gravity.

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