Older Than Print: In The Divine Comedy, Dante is the author Dante Alighieri with some volume of Wish-Fulfillment: he gets to see his authentic-daily life enemies burn in hell, interact with famed folks he admires, reunite with his authentic-daily life shed enjoy Beatrice who turns out to have cherished him so a lot that she set up this entire journey to help you save him, and ascend all the way up to Heaven to see God up close.