Whose poem is the Divine Comedy?

Dante wrote the Divine Comedy between about 1308 and 1321, while in exile from his home city of Florence. The poem describes Dante's imagined journey through the afterlife in three parts: Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Heaven). It has 100 cantos — an introductory canto plus 33 in each part — and is written in a rhyme scheme called terza rima. The Roman poet Virgil guides Dante through Hell and Purgatory, and Beatrice, the woman he idealised, leads him through Heaven. By writing in the Tuscan dialect instead of Latin, Dante helped shape the modern Italian language.