The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem created by an Italian poet, Dante Alighieri.

It is
broken into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso (Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise). Each
of these comprises of 33 cantos. From darkness and error to the discovery of heavenly light,
Dante's journey is followed in this narrative, which culminates in the Beatitudes.
In this comedy, each of realms is structured in a similar numerical pattern. These are the
nine circles of the Inferno, nine rings of Mount Purgatory, nine heavenly bodies in Paradiso, and
the Empyrean storing God's essence. The poem, written in the first person, narrates Dante's
journey through the three realms of the dead in the spring of 1300. In Dante's Inferno, he
becomes disoriented in the wilderness and discovers he has perished. Virgil assists him
throughout Inferno and Purgatorio. He encounters the horrors of Inferno and journeys through its
nine circles. Purgatorio, on the other hand, is a section of The Divine Comedy. Dante and Virgil
make their way from the depths of Hell to the Mountain of Purgatory, which is located on the
other side of the globe. The Mountain is situated on an island, the Southern Hemisphere's only
landmass, which was created as a consequence of rock displacement induced by Satan's descent.
According to Dante, the underworld exists underneath Jerusalem. The mountain is split by seven
terraces, one for each of the seven deadly sins or sources of wickedness. Dante and Virgil
traverse the mountain's seven terraces, each of which represents a fatal sin. Finally, in Paradiso,
Dante travels through Heaven's nine celestial spheres with the assistance of his beloved Beatrice.
These are round and concentric, as in Aristotelian and Ptolemaic cosmology, for example, the
Moon, Mercury, etc. In contrast to Inferno and Purgatorio, the poem's final section features
encounters with virtues rather than sins. Additionally, Dante encounters and converses with a
number of Church's great saints such as Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, Saint Peter, and St.
John.
In conclusion, this complex work of art depicts Hell's nine circles, Purgatory's seven
terraces, and Paradise's nine spheres. The trip is teeming with dead souls attempting to atone for
their transgressions or just to survive in the hereafter.