Dante's work, in all its complexity and value, was a milestone of contemporaneity even if we consider the admiration that Boccaccio conveyed to him; over the centuries, from Chaucer and Chateaubriand, to Miguel de Unamuno, all the great minds have turned to the model represented by Dante. Although Vita Nuova is widely known as the noblest manifesto of Italian poetry (Hede, p.34), and the most perfect expression of the sweet new style, a mostly frank and naive story of Dante's love for the Florentine Beatrice Portinari, a name became synonymous with the Divine Comedy. The writer began writing his masterpiece starting from 1307, before the years of exile, and it was the capital work that Dante developed until the last moment of his life (Raffa, 12). Based on the principles of medieval poetic art, according to which tragedy has a happy beginning and a tragic denouement, and comedy, after a sad performance, evolves into a happy ending, Dante titled his work Commedia, but Boccaccio added the "divine" attribute which was then promoted and consecrated by posterity (Taaffe, 21). This status is not accidental, but generated by the fact that this writing is a moral autobiography, a drama of the time, a work of synthesis in politics , an epic and, obviously, an allegorical poem. From the beginning the existence of three distinct layers must be mentioned, merged by Dante in the construction of his imaginary universe. Usually when we talk about Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, we know that they are imaginary spaces, detached from faith. Religion is what affirms the existence of these areas after death, where souls will go. It is where we are rewarded or punished for the way we lived our lives. But it's about a... ... half of the paper ...... dyed. Make plans; you think about how to follow your steps. Or the gold counterfeiters of the Middle Ages didn't operate because they couldn't contain themselves. No, they calculated their every gesture. Not to mention betrayal, when you not only harm yourself, but bring damnation to your entire country. It is the most scandalous evil imaginable. Why? Reason - and this is where we recognize Dante as the rational artist! - it is offered to us to seek good, not evil. And the supreme good is represented by God. Works Cited Hede, J. Reading Dante: The Pursuit of Meaning. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, (2007), PrintTaaffe, J., A Comment on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Oxford University, (1822), PrintRaffa, Guy P., The Complete Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the Divine Comedy . University of Chicago Press, (2009), Print