... sections, named the Inferno (Hell), the Purgatorio (Purgatory), and the Paradiso (Paradise). In each of these three realms, the poet meets different people. Each character is symbolic of a particular fault or virtue. Dante is guided through hell and purgatory by Virgil, who is, the symbol of reason. The woman Dante loved, Beatrice, is his guide through paradise. She is the symbol of divine will. Dante wrote the poem for his ... colleagues and therefore wrote it in vernacular which was Italian. He named the poem La commedia (The Comedy) because it ends happily, in heaven. His journey's c...

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