About This Book
A pilgrim undertakes a visionary journey through three realms of the afterlife—a region of punishment, a realm of purification, and a sphere of blessedness—guided first by a classical poet and then by a spiritual ideal. The poem stages encounters with symbolic figures and moral exemplars, mapping a structured cosmology that interweaves theology, political commentary, and personal conscience, and combines vivid imagery, allegory, and philosophical reflection to examine sin, repentance, divine justice, and the soul's ascent toward the divine.