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"The Divine Comedy" tells the story of the Italian poet Dante who strayed into a dark and dangerous forest one night when he was "halfway through his life journey". When the sun rose, three ferocious beasts-a lion, a leopard, and a wolf-blocked Dante's way. At this time, the great ancient Roman poet Virgil appeared. Virgil was entrusted by Dante's beloved woman, the Saint Beatrice, to help Dante out of danger and take him to visit hell and purgatory. When arriving at the paradise on earth, Beatrice appeared and took over Virgil's guide job, leading Dante to travel to paradise, allowing him to finally see the truth, goodness and beauty, and feel true love and joy.

Dante's immortal poem "The Divine Comedy" adopts the unique form of phantom travel in medieval literature, reaching a very high artistic level. In the poem, Dante imagined that he traveled through the three realms of hell, purgatory and heaven under the guidance of the philosopher Virgil and his lover Beatrice. During this shocking journey from heaven to earth, Dante used his rich imagination, profound knowledge and wonderful ideas to depict the distinctive characteristics of hundreds of characters he encountered during the journey, constructing a colorful and vivid character gallery, which can be called an "encyclopedia" in the field of medieval culture. Since the book came out, it has been translated into various languages ​​and spread widely. The book selects the masterpieces of paintings about the "Divine Comedy" by these masters of art. It uses easy-to-understand language to completely retell the story of this "pilgrimage" seven hundred years ago, and invites you to join this thrilling spiritual journey.

"The Divine Comedy" is a long epic poem. Each part of the trilogy has thirty-three cantos, plus the first canto as the overture to the whole book, for a total of one hundred cantos. This symmetrical structure is based on medieval concepts of the mysterious meaning and symbolism of numbers. "The Divine Comedy" extensively reflects reality, gives an artistic summary of medieval culture, and at the same time shows the dawn of humanistic thought in the Renaissance era. Therefore, Engels called him "the last poet of the Middle Ages and the first poet of the new era."

The long epic "Divine Comedy" (approximately 1307-1313) is Dante's most important masterpiece and a landmark work in the history of European and world literature. Through the author's dialogues with various famous figures in hell, purgatory and heaven, it provides an artistic summary of the field of medieval culture, and also vaguely reveals the dawn of humanistic thought in the Renaissance era. The previous "Masterpieces of Foreign Literature Series" only included "The Divine Comedy: Inferno", and this time the other two will be included in the new series.