The Divine Comedy

“Once upon a time, in a year old years, I went into the dense forest /> I went into the dense forest ...”
-this begins the “Divine Comedy”, the immortal poetic trilogy, in which Dante daringly rethought the medieval tradition of “walks” around the afterlife and religious “visions” and created a truly unique work in which mysticism is combined with philosophy, and the parable with a very poisonous political pamphlet.
The centuries have passed. The political topicality of the “Divine Comedy” has long disappeared, but the immortal beauty of Dante"s language, and the power of his literary talent, and the power of philosophical thought that anticipated the spiritual and moral searches of the humanistic geniuses of the Renaissance remained