ABSTRACT
Perhaps most dramatically and evocatively, Dante developed his three parts in the Divina Commedia, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, as essential elements of his trailing through all three stages of this and the afterlife. Guided first by Virgil, later by Beatrice, this glorious poem proves to be centrally based on the notion of the trail which is often most difficult, blocked, uncertain, dangerous. But the trail itself takes Dante out of his midlife crisis and provides him with new direction, motivation, inspiration, and insights into the spiritual sides of human existence. All those ultimately help him to reach his real goal, Beatrice in Heaven.
