One of the most important works in Italian as well as world literature, DIvine Comedy is a long narrative poem from 1320 by Dante Alighieri. The story describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven, while allegorically the poem represents the soul's journey towards God. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century.
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