“The
Divine Comedy”
by Dante Alighieri
Illustrated by Salvador Dali
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) wrote his Comedia over a period of years and completed
it in the year of his death.
(The appellation “Divine” was added in the 15th Century.) It is written
in terza rima, a series of triplets of 10 or 11 syllables per line,
the middle line rhyming with the first and third lines of the following triplet.
The poem consists of 100 cantos describing a trip through the Afterlife, Vergil
guiding Dante through Hell and Purgatory, and Beatrice through Paradise.
To celebrate the 700th anniversary of Alighieri’s birth, the government
of Italy planned to issue a special edition of Divine Comedy.
For this, from 1951 through 1960 Dali created 101 watercolors |
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