![]() ![]() Though English poets Geoffrey Chaucer and John Milton referenced and partially translated Dante's works in the 14th and 17th centuries respectively, it took until the early 19th century for the first full English translation of the Divine Comedy to be published. ![]() ![]() It has been translated over 400 times into at least 52 different languages. The poem is considered one of the greatest works of world literature and helped establish Dante's Tuscan dialect as the standard form of the Italian language. The three cantiche of the poem, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, describe hell, purgatory, and heaven respectively. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is an epic poem in Italian written between 13 that describes its author's journey through the Christian afterlife. A room in Dante's House Museum containing many translations of the Divine Comedy into different languages ![]()
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