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The Divine Comedy

Read it as a map of medieval moral thought and as a revenge fantasy with a sublime ending. The structure is the argument.

Faith Justice Love Mortality

Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood.”

The cast, in the Character Atlas →Literary devices →Where it sits in time →

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Love — how other works handle it →Mortality — how other works handle it →Justice — how other works handle it →

Now read the first page with all of this in mind.

The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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