英文介绍但丁的神曲

Dante's The Divine Comedy.

And so do some of the world's most moving art and literature, from Dante's Divine Comedy to Leonardo da Vinci's rendering of Mona Lisa's mysterious smile.

Perhaps trying to convince the world that his epic poem, the Divine Comedy, is not just for Ivy League intellectuals but for the common man and woman on life's journey.

Here is the story, in brief. A lonely pilgrim—it is Dante himself—strays into a dark wood, and is guided by the Roman poet Virgil down into Hell to contemplate the harrowing fate of the damned.

Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are generally regarded as the highest achievements of medieval literature.