Italian should be Divina Commedia. It means God's comedy. It's strange that you should find this divine comedy not funny at all. Why "comedy"? This is due to the European view of comedy and tragedy at that time-that is, what is comedy? What is tragedy? At that time, comedy did not refer to funny drama, but to narrative process.
The direction of the things described is getting better and better, from a state of poverty, a state of tragedy to a state of harmony, that is, a state of continuous upward movement. This is the so-called comedy. But if the whole narrative process is from a relatively harmonious state to an unharmonious state, from a higher state to a lower state, from a more correct state to an increasingly unfortunate state, then this is a tragedy. Dante's writing order is from hell to purgatory and then to heaven. It has been rising, so the divine comedy is a comedy.
But in the face of Dante's Divine Comedy, Balzac's Human Comedy and Pound's poems, it is difficult to connect them. This shows that there is such a relationship of inheritance, respect and competition between European literature, that is to say, if you enter the pedigree of European literature, you will find such a relationship.
Engels called Dante "the last poet in the Middle Ages and a poet in the new era". Eliot thinks that "Dante and Shakespeare share the modern world equally, and there is no square". Dante was a great writer in the Middle Ages, and his masterpiece Divine Comedy attracted many people because of his rich ideas. Everything has two sides, and Divine Comedy is no exception. It contains progress and limitations.
Engels called Dante "the last poet in the Middle Ages and a poet in the new era". Eliot thinks that "Dante and Shakespeare share the modern world equally, and there is no square". Dante was a great writer in the Middle Ages, and his masterpiece Divine Comedy attracted many people because of his rich ideas. Everything has two sides, and Divine Comedy is no exception. It contains progress and limitations.