The great historical value of Divine Comedy lies in that it reflects the changes in real life and social and political fields in Italy during the transition period from the Middle Ages to modern times through the descriptions of hundreds of various characters encountered by the poet in his fantasy journey, and reveals the new concept of the new era-the dawn of humanism.
Divine Comedy gives an artistic exposition and summary of politics, philosophy, science, theology, poetry, painting and culture in the Middle Ages. Therefore, it not only reached the advanced level of the times in thought and art, but also was an epoch-making milestone and an encyclopedic masterpiece reflecting social life and imparting knowledge.
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The original Italian meaning of Divine Comedy is Divine Comedy. Dante only named his works comedy at first, and Boccaccio added the word "sacred" to show his respect for Dante when he wrote the biography of Dante.
Comedy got its name because it started in a sad hell and ended in a bright heaven. Because people at that time used to call narrative poems "comedy" and "tragedy"; It is said that The Divine Comedy is written in Italian, not the official language Latin, and the writing is not too serious, so it is called Comedy. When it was translated into China, it was translated into The Divine Comedy. It is one of the four classical novels in Europe.
The Divine Comedy takes the form of a unique fantasy journey in medieval literature. Dante takes himself as the protagonist, assuming that he has gone through hell, purgatory and heaven as a living person. The whole poem is divided into three parts: hell, purgatory and heaven.
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