- Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, written in Italian
- About the afterlife with a medieval perspective 1308-1320 representing a soul’s journey towards God
- 3 parts
- Inferno, hell –
- Purgatorio, (purgatory)and
- Paradiso. (heaven)
- To reach God – had to
- rejection of sin (inferno)
- penitent Christian life (purgatory)
- ascent to God (heaven)