Can a single literary work combine metaphysical contemplation, political critique, and a theological vision claiming to light our path to salvation, while also being a biography, a journey, an epic, and a magnificent love poem? Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy" did. Although it would take him ten years to finish when he began writing it at 35, his journey would only last seven and a half days.
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