Complexity of Dantes Inferno
Quick glance at The Divine Comedy and how difficult it is to read.
A while back I read Dante's Inferno, knowing next to nothing about the history or story. Only having fragments of knowledge which I'd gleaned from games. As I began to read I learnt that it is a poem, originally written in Italian. By Florence poet Dante Alighieri 1265 – 1321. His work known as Dante's Inferno or The Divine Comedy, is a masterpiece of world literature. He begun working on it c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. Its release in Italian was contentious, as notable literature of the time was published in Latin, available only to the affluent that could read it. The Italian language was considered a 'common' language, and works published in this tongue (Italian) didn't receive the same esteem. Dante helped establish Italian as the national language.
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