The reason why The Divine Comedy can kick off the Renaissance and have a wide influence is that its content has the directivity of attacking the darkness and corruption of the church, and it has played the role of speaking for the people, liberating the people's spirit and opening the people's hearts.
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Divine Comedy (Italian: Divine Comedy) is a long poem written by Dante Alighieri (c.1265-1321).
written from 137 to 1321, the author of this work reflects the achievements and some major problems in the field of medieval culture through dialogues with various famous figures in hell, purgatory and heaven, which is of the nature of an encyclopedia, from which we can also glimpse the dawn of humanistic thought in the Renaissance.
The poem consists of three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. In the form of a long poem, it describes a dream that Dante had in the middle of his life, so as to condemn the rule of the church.
In this epic with more than 14, lines, Dante resolutely opposes obscurantism in the Middle Ages and expresses his persistent pursuit of truth, which has a profound influence on the poetry creation of later generations in Europe.
The Divine Comedy was originally called Comedy, and Boccaccio gave this work a title of "sacred" in Dante Biography to show his reverence for the poet. Later versions were titled "Holy Comedy". The Chinese translation is commonly called Divine Comedy.