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Why is The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri important?

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In The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri uses poetry to explore the existence of life after death.

The Divine Comedy is an Italian long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri.

The narrative deals with Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven, while allegorically the poem represents the soul's journey towards God. Dante insipired on medieval Christian theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy and the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas.

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Dante Alighieri is one of the many important people of all time. This is because he wrote the Divine Comedy. He wrote this book and it marked the endpoint of the middle ages. Dante also wrote in a modern European native language vernacular/ the common dialect which was Italian NOT in Latin.
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