The "Divine Comedy," with its seven centuries of life, reveals itself as a titanic composition of that era.

It is the high achievement of a magnificent effort, which subjugates an entirely exceptional and multifaceted material to ideological and creative conception. The value of the material lies both in the breadth of observations and in the large number of representations.

With the harmony of poetic content, the breadth of the phenomena of real life that are faithfully reflected, and with the historical traditions and the political struggles of the time, the "Divine Comedy" can be regarded as a creative generalization of that period of human development, which is entirely on the threshold of a new historical era, and which was fully seen by the keen eye of the Italian poet.