Dante wrote the Divine Comedy between 1308 and 1321 (the year of his death), but the otherworldly journey described takes place on March 25, 1300, when the poet, lost in the “dark forest”, embarks on the journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, guided first by his master Virgil and then by Beatrice, the woman he loved madly in life.
According to tradition, the last thirteen cantos of Paradise were found by Dante’s son, Jacopo Alighieri, after the poet’s death in 1321. It was thanks to a dream that Dante revealed to his son the place where the missing cantos were: a hidden wall in his house in Ravenna.