![]() ![]() Of the two dates now considered most probable, 13-1307, this latter seems most convincing, given that between 13 Dante was busy writing two other works ( De vulgari eloquentia and Il Convivio), which he interrupted when the demanding work on the Divine Comedy began. Certainly we should reject the hypotheses that a) Dante began writing the poem in honor of Beatrice before he went into exile and then finished it, after his sentence, starting in 1306, and b) that the Divine Comedy was begun after the death of Henry VII in 1313. It has not yet been possible to establish precisely the year when Dante began writing the Divine Comedy, thus we have to rely on what we know about his life and on elements internal to the work. ![]()
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