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The Divine Comedy In Popular Culture
The ''Divine Comedy'' has been a source of inspiration for artists, musicians, and authors since its appearance in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. Works are included here if they have been described by scholars as relating substantially in their structure or content to the ''Divine Comedy''. The ''Divine Comedy'' ( it, Divina Commedia) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. Divided into three parts: ''Inferno'' (Hell), ''Purgatorio'' (Purgatory), and '' Paradiso'' (Heaven), it is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval worldview as it had developed in the Catholic Church by the 14th century. It helped to establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. Literature Medieval * In 1373, a little ...
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Paradiso (Italian: ''Heaven'', literally: Paradise); may refer to: People * Paradiso (surname) Places * Gran Paradiso, a 4,000 metres mountain in Italy * Paradiso railway station (Luxembourg) * Paradiso, Switzerland, a municipality of the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino ** Lugano-Paradiso railway station * Paradiso (Turin Metro), a Turin Metro station Music * Paradiso (Amsterdam), a music venue in Amsterdam * Paradiso Festival, an annual music festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington, U.S. * Paradiso Girls, an American and European dance-pop group Albums * ''Paradiso'', a 2006 album by Tangerine Dream discography, Tangerine Dream * ''Paradiso'', a 2017 album by Chino Amobi * Paradiso (Fiction Plane album), ''Paradiso'' (Fiction Plane album), 2009 * Paradiso (Hayley Westenra album), ''Paradiso'' (Hayley Westenra album), 2011 Songs * ''Paradiso'', Connie Francis song Number-one hits of 1962 (Germany) * Paradiso (Marika Gombitová song), "Paradiso" (Marika Gombi ...
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