Not a long time ago, I read this book called 'The divine Comedy'. This book, no, I should not say it as a 'book'. It was a kind of a veeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy long poem to me. I could not say it as a story. So, anyway this poem was divided into 3 books(?). It was Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. In other words, it means hell, purgatory, and heaven. Hell, as everyone knows, is a place where people who made a crime while living gets its punishment that it deserves with much pain. Purgatory was a work that I never heard before but it was a place where a person (maybe not a person because he/she is dead) goes before going to heaven. And they also get trained with fire to finish all the punishment for the crime that they made when they were living. Lastly, heaven is a place where people with their crimes all forgived go and have eternal glory.
I read the first one which was 'La comedia di Dante Alighieri-Inferno' ( actually I did NOT read the italian version... It was just on the cover of the book. This book is by Durante degli Alighieri who was an Italian poet. When I first saw his picture when I went to Italy, it made a very mean and angry look. His ugly(?) face was one of the reason that he could not get his love. He is a very famous person and his story is all over in the world. Also when people go to Italy, they go to somewhere related to him at least once. His love story is very popular in the whole world. Beatrice di Folco Portinari was a woman he loved. He got in love with her when he was 9. He always went to the bridge that she used to cross every day to see her. From his age 9, she was the only one he loved and admired. He could not marry her and had to marry another woman but, he could never forget about her for his whole life. She comes out as a character that leads Dante in his looooooooooooooooong poems.
This super duper long poem was about the hell.(obviously). It had every single details about the hell. People getting punishments was truly scary. They could not walk properly or they were bleeding a lot, and etc. they had many scary punishments. I do not really want to talk about that.
This came out as a movie too. I watched it but, also scary. It was scarier to watch it as a real video.
I agree this is a great writing and Dante is a genius at writing poems. But I do not recommend you reading this now... I did not have a warm welcome at this place. But I hope you read this book when you grow up and go to college, or become an adult.
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