Bozhestvennaia komediia - Dante Alig'eri

"Divine Comedy" is a grandiose monument of poetic culture and a true encyclopedia of medieval worldview. In it, the poet makes a journey through the three kingdoms of the afterlife and with amazing clarity and clarity of the image gives a lively, memorable picture of what is happening there.

Ordinary people took Dante's poem literally. Boccaccio told about two residents of Verona, who, noticing passing Dante, exchanged significant lines. "Look," said one, "here is the one who goes down to Hell and, coming back from there whenever he wishes, brings the message of the sinners who are there. Another replied: "You must be right: look at his curly beard, and his face is black from the smoke and soot of hellish fire." In our day, historians and critics still do not stop arguing about what this great work is: a "guide" to the afterlife or an attempt to know the unknowable, to find rational in the irrational, to show people the way from darkness and sorrow to light and Joy.