Without a doubt, the Divine Comedy is, in addition to being a prodigy of poetic and narrative technique and beauty, a work that reaches levels of wisdom about human beings and their 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 is only pursued in it through analysis, reflection and imaginary projection of the life and world of its time and place, hence, as happens in other great works of universal literature, the 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 foreign to ours, and given the multitude of references to characters, historical facts, social events, material elements, customs, political foundations -legal, etc., a critical apparatus ...read more