Divine Comedy

American  

noun

1. a narrative epic poem (14th century) by Dante.

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Example Sentences

No wonder Dante, the Florence-born author of the “Divine Comedy,” consigned counterfeiters to the eighth circle of hell, “just one rung higher than Lucifer in the ninth.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The Venetian hotel—Palazzo Ducale on the outside, Divine Comedy on the inside—was overrun by thousands of white men in business casual now earning their living, one way or another, off subprime mortgages.

From Literature

An analogy I make in the book is Dante writing the "Divine Comedy."

From Salon

“Abandon all hope ye who enter here,” he said, borrowing a passage from Dante’s “Divine Comedy.”

From Seattle Times

By middle age, Virgil feels “lost in a dark wood,” much like the narrator of Dante’s “The Divine Comedy.”

From New York Times