{"product_id":"paperblanks-inferno-midi-hardback-journal-lined-144-pages-pb7231-7","title":"Paperblanks Inferno Midi Hardback Journal – Lined, 144 Pages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCapture your ideas, plans and memories in this Inferno midi hardback journal from Paperblanks, with 144 lined pages of 120 gsm acid-free paper.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDante Alighieri composed the \u003cem\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e over a period of 12 years, completing it in 1320. He divided the poem into three parts – \u003cem\u003eInferno, Purgatorio\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eParadiso.\u003c\/em\u003e It is the first canto from Inferno that we have reproduced here. Dante’s vision of the afterlife continues to inspire writers and artists around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Story Behind the Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDante’s \u003cem\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e (or \u003cem\u003eDivina Commedia\u003c\/em\u003e) is widely considered to be not only the most important poem of the Middle Ages, but the all-time greatest work of Italian literature. High praise indeed, but when one considers the lasting impact this 14th-century narrative poem has had on art and culture, it is hard to deny it the honour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDante Alighieri (1265–1321) composed this epic work over a period of 12 years, finally completing it in 1320. First titled by the author as \u003cem\u003eComedìa\u003c\/em\u003e (“comedy,” as opposed to “tragedy,” the other common type of narrative theme in his day), the \u003cem\u003e“Divina”\u003c\/em\u003e was added by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 1500s. Dante divided the piece into three parts – Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso – and it is the first canto from Inferno that we have reproduced for this cover. Though no original manuscripts by Dante himself have survived, this is from a 14th-century manuscript copy, one of the earliest produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy, and Dante’s depictions of Hell (Inferno), Purgatory and Heaven as part of the soul’s journey to God continue to inspire writers and artists today. His imaginative vision of the afterlife is emblematic of the medieval worldview and, though it was written as a religious poem, it has inspired writers and artists from all backgrounds in the centuries that followed. Because Dante wrote this in the common Tuscan dialect, rather than the high art language of Latin, his poem was more widely available to readers and helped to establish Tuscan as the standardised Italian language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer and Alfred Lord Tennyson all counted themselves as fans of the work, and so do we! 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