The fruit of Dante's entire life, a creation that in the Middle Ages became a harbinger of the Renaissance, a work that ranks among the greatest achievements of human thought - this is what they said, say and will say about the work that Dante Alighieri himself (1265-1321) called simply " comedy", and his descendants were called "Divine". In his grandest work, the poet depicted the dramatic fate of the human soul in a symbolic and allegorical form: its death in hell, rebirth in purgatory, triumph in paradise.

     More than seven centuries have passed since the appearance of the "Divine Comedy", but historians and critics still do not stop arguing about what it is: a "guide" to the underworld (in the imagination of an ordinary earthly person) or something else, an attempt by human genius to know the unknowable, to find the rational in the irrational, to show people the way from darkness and sorrow to light and joy. Either way, The Divine Comedy is a classic that will live forever.

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