Divine Comedy, The Years Author(s): Tony Yeshin

Author(s): Tony Yeshin

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Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defence of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration

he took matters into his own hands

Divine Comedy, The Years Author(s): Tony YeshinDescribed variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and, because of the author's evangelical purpose, the `fifth Gospel', the Divine Comedy is central to the culture of the west. The poem is a spiritual autobiography in the form of a journey the poet travels from the dark circles of the Inferno, up the mountain of Purgatory, where Virgil, his guide leaves him to encounter Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise. Dante conceived the poem as