It is a world of perfect felicity where the sinners go after they have suffered, repented and have been purified. The Inferno is a description of Hell the Purgatorio is a description of Purgatory where the souls of the sinners, after punishment in Hell, experience keen feelings of remorse and repentance and are purged of their sins while Paradiso is a description of a world of beauty, light, and song, where Dante meets Beatrice, the girl with whom he had been in love but whom he could not marry. The Divine Comedy: Its Three Partsĭante’s epic is divided into three parts – the Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso. It is an expression of the suffering, of the devotion and hard work, of sincerity and truthfulness, of intensity of vision, and of the moral profundity and intellectual greatness of its author. He calls it “divine song”, “the transcendental, mystic song”, “the voice of ten silent centuries” the “Christian epic” which makes articulate the soul, the moral nature, of the middle ages. In Lecture III of his Heroes and Hero-worship, Carlyle is all praises for it. Dante’s Divine Comedy is one of the most remarkable poems that have come down to us from the middle ages.
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