Undoubtedly, the divine comedy is, in addition to a prodigy of poetic and narrative technique and beauty, a work that reaches dimensions of wisdom on the human being and its situation in the world and the universe achieved by very few others in the history of the humanity. However, its desire for universality and timelessness only pursues in it through the analysis, reflection and imaginary projection of life and the world of its time and its place, hence, as it happens to other great works of Universal literature, divine comedy is more universal the more local it is. Therefore, given the deep doctrinal and ideological framework with which it is built, with notions and implications in many cases alien to ours, and given the multitude of references to characters, historical events, social events, material elements, customs, political foundations -Juridic, etc., a critical apparatus of ...read more