Divine Comedy, The Years the Isle of Man

the Isle of Man

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and a glossary of the mythical names and geographical references encountered in the dialogue

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Divine Comedy, The Years the Isle of ManDescribed variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and, because of the author's evangelical purpose, the `fifth Gospel', the Divine Comedy is central to the culture of the west. The poem is a spiritual autobiography in the form of a journey the poet travels from the dark circles of the Inferno, up the mountain of Purgatory, where Virgil, his guide leaves him to encounter Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise. Dante conceived the poem as