Divine comedy is a literary and artistic genre which originated in the Middle Ages and found its most famous expression in Dante Alighieri's fourteenth-century masterpiece, the Comedy. It has extended over the centuries to become a larger coterie of works - primarily in literature, theatre, music and the visual arts - that depict the spiritual journey of humanity as a spiritual pilgrimage towards ultimate divine transformation, often incorporating sublime satire and other elements of the demonic, fantastical and allegorical. The genre has been immensely influential in subsequent European and American culture, a lasting symbol of our collective aspiration to reach out to a higher order.

See also: wisdom tradition, right hemisphere, left hemisphere, corpus callosum