Poem by
Dante Alighieri, of over 14,000 lines. It details his
journey through
hell (
Inferno),
purgatory (
purgatorio), and
heaven (
Paradiso). The
Divine Comedy is written in the
Tuscan dialect, which was (in large part because of this work) the
precursor to
modern Italian. Finished just before
Dante's death in
1321, this poem is written in
terza rima.