1. DANTE ALIGHIERI 1265-1321

3. Born in Florence c. Died and Buried in Ravenna

4. His Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia by the author and later nicknamed Divina by Boccaccio, is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. The Divine Comedy is broken up into three main sections PARADISO PURGATORIO INFERNO

5. Dante is guided on a journey by the ancient Greek poet Virgil and a former love Beatrice. Virgil – Ancient Roman Poet from Augustan Period Beatrice Takes over as guide from the Latin poet Virgil because, as a pagan, Virgil cannot enter Paradise and because, being the incarnations of beatific love, As her name implies, it is Beatrice who leads into The Beatific vision.

6. PARADISO

8. Paradiso The Sun-Glorified Souls 1868

9. Paradiso The Empyrean 1868

10. Paradiso Jupiter 1868

11. PURGATORIO

12. Inspired by the second book of Dante's Divine Comedy (the first being Inferno), Purgatory symbolizes our need to face our fears and overcome life's obstacles. Looking at this, we are reminded that it is through opposition that we find growth.

14. Purgatorio: The Eagle 1868

15. Purgatorio Marco the Lombard 1868

16. Canto XXXII

17. INFERNO

18. Inferno - Gate of Hell 1857

19. Inferno Bertram de Born 1857

20. Inferno Farinata 1857

21. GUSTAVE DORE In the midway of this our mortal life, I found Me in a gloomy wood, Astray Canto 1, lines 1 & 2 1867

22. Thomas Aquinas names the learned and the Wise to Dante and Beatrice: Albertus Magnus, Gratian, Peter Lombard, Solomon, Dionysius the Areopagite, Orosius, Boethius, Isidore of Seville, Bede, Richard of St. Victor, Siger of Brabant. Paradiso X

23. fraudulent counselors, botticelli

24. William Blake - Whirlwind of Lovers Canto 5- the carnal

25. Canto XIII

26. Canto 1 - 1-90

27. Canto XXVI

28. Inferno, Canto XXXIV (detail) 1480s Silverpoint, completed in pen and ink Staatliche Museen, Berlin Botticelli

29. Sandro Botticelli worked on the illustrations to the Dante’s Divine Comedy for 20 years from 1480 to 1500. 92 drawings on sheepskin parchments survived, out of 100 in the entire series. There are 84 drawing in Kupferstichkabinett AKA Staatliche Museen in Berlin and 8 in Biblioteca Vaticana in Rome.

30. Inferno, Canto XXXI 1480s Silverpoint on parchment, completed in pen and ink, 320 x 470 mm

31. Inferno, Canto XVIII 1480s Coloured drawing on parchment, 320 x 470 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin

33. Inferno adam and sinon the greek

37. Blake, falsifiers

38. hell and paradise carel schouten

40. To view more illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy http://www.dalionline.com/divinecomedy.html http://www.artstor.org nacc126@hotmail.comnacc126@hotmail.com - artstor Once in artstor type dore divine comedy, botticelli divine Comedy, william blake divine comedy in the search area

41. For translations of Dante’s Divine Comedy http://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.html By Longfellow http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/dante/dante_contents.htm By James Finn Cotter http://www.italianstudies.org/comedy/index.htm http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/dante/dante_contents.htm http://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.htmlhttp://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.html (translations) http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/comedy/http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/comedy/ (translations) http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/ (great site with images) http://www.enotes.com/divine-comedy