FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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3
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10
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33
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100
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Divine Comedy is composed of 14, 233 lines that are divided into three cantiche (singular cantica) – Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise) – each consisting of 33 cantos (Italian plural canti).
Detailed explanation-2: -At the end of canto 32, Dante finds Ugolino gnawing violently at the head of another sinner, Archbishop Ruggieri. Ugolino tells Dante that he will describe his own crime, and allow Dante to determine which of the two of them is the greater sinner.
Detailed explanation-3: -In this canto, Virgil and Dante walk on a lake of ice where thousands of sinners are trapped, embedded up to the neck, and a voice tells him to watch his step. He encounters a pair of brothers whose foreheads are frozen together and learns that they murdered each other over a family inheritance.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Divine Comedy is divided into three canticles: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each canticle consists of thirty-three cantos, except the first which has thirty-four, thus the entire poem is made up of one-hundred cantos.