trmichaels
What are some of The Divine Comedy's thematic concerns?
The Divine Comedy
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Augusta1
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The simplest reading of this work is allegorical, but there are several other layers of meaning reaching into the historical, moral, literal, and anagogical.
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inzmtns
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The structure of the poem is very complex. Numerological and mathematical patterns persist throughout the work, many of them involving threes and nines, in reference to the Holy Trinity.