2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri (b. 1265). Dante was a poet, a politician, a philosopher, and a theologian. He is best known for his masterpiece, La Commedia, known to anglophone readers as The Divine Comedy. The Comedy is one of the greatest works of poetry in history and it is the Christian epic of the afterlife: a moral and intellectual and spiritual journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise to the beatific vision of God in the Empyrean, the highest heaven of the medieval religious vision. To mark the seventh centenary since Dante’s death, we are embarking on our own journey through the Comedy, accompanying Dante the pilgrim in his own epic quest to behold God face-to-face as a friend.[1]
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