Divine Comedy

This is the spot... (well it used to be a cafe a couple of hundred years ago) where Dante wrote the divine comedy... his epic poem is about his descent through purgatory and the 8 levels and many circles of hell guided by the Roman poet Virgil ... the reading took three days (if you don't count the three weeks at university spent trying.... before i gave up got the coles notes...(pre internet -internet)....however, sitting in Florence where he wrote most of it... made the reading all the easier....i enjoyed his prose and his metaphor.... the view of the afterlife from the point of view of the medieval world as developed by the western church is a complex and horrific view of the fate of most of humanity.. if your a catholic save up your copper coins... if not go ahead and write your own poem where you make a list of all the people you don't like and how and where they are going to suffer in hell..... go ahead and send me just one more application to join a chain letter group... i'll be sure to check that list twice....