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Who is the author of "The Divine Comedy"?
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The author of the "Divine Comedy"is the Italian writer Dante Alighieri, although the original title is "Commedia". The "Divine" part was added later by Giovanni Boccaccio. Also, it's not a comedy in the usual way (it's not precisely funny). It was called "comedy" because it didn't have the classic structure of a tragedy.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Michelino_DanteAndHisPoem.jpg
Two more interesting facts from the intro of my cheap edition of said book:
Dante decided not to write his work in Latin, as it was common back then in many places of Europe when you wrote about intellectual and serious stuff. Instead, he wrote it in Tuscan, the vulgar language that would one day become the basis of the Italian language.
Also, he wrote The Divine Comedy while he was exiled.
Two more interesting facts from the intro of my cheap edition of said book:
Dante decided not to write his work in Latin, as it was common back then in many places of Europe when you wrote about intellectual and serious stuff. Instead, he wrote it in Tuscan, the vulgar language that would one day become the basis of the Italian language.
Also, he wrote The Divine Comedy while he was exiled.
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I studied literature.
Plus: ALIGHIERI, Dante, La divina comedia, México, Porrúa, 2002.
I studied literature.
Plus: ALIGHIERI, Dante, La divina comedia, México, Porrúa, 2002.
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I rather thought it /was/ funny, actually, but then I am a little strange.