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The "Divine Comedy" was entitled by Dante himself merely
"Commedia," meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate
between the sustained nobility of tragedy, and the popular tone of
elegy. The word had no dramatic implication at that time, though it
did involve a happy ending. The poem is the narrative of a journey
down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the
revolving heavens into the presence of God. In this aspect it
belongs to the two familiar medieval literary types of the Journey
and the Vision. It is also an allegory, representing under the
symbolism of the stages and experiences of the journey, the history
of a human soul, painfully struggling from sin through purification
to the Beatific Vision. Contained in this volume is the first part
of the "Divine Comedy," the "Inferno" or "Hell," from the
translation of Charles Eliot Norton.
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