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Dante's Vision of the Paradise

The Divine Comedy by Dante is an immortal epic by Dante describing the poet’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. How to find Salvation? This is the main theme of this greatest epic written in Italian language.   The truth is that this fascinating book is soul’s willing ascent toward the Almighty Lord. The poet in his journey toward heaven is accompanied by the great Roman poet Virgil, and Beatrice, the ideal woman.          We find the following immortal gems of thought in Divine Comedy showing the deepest insights of Dante: All hope abandon, ye who enter here!     Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.   In the section Inferno, Dante reveals that the the people wth moral depravity lead the worst possible life: Their sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; Strange utterances, horrible pronouncem...