Divine Comedy

c. 1308 to c. 1321 1308-01-01 – 1322-01-01

Established Italian as a literary language and mapped the medieval Christian cosmos.

Broken into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

The Inferno is the most famous for its tiered depiction of Hell, which has become a central part of Christian hell imagery to the present day.