History YMMV / TheDivineComedy

* ValuesDissonance: ''Paradisio'' has nuns who were raped in the lowest heaven and unable to enter the ones above, since this broke their vows of chastity.
%%** See BuryYourGays in the main page.

** See BuryYourGays in the main page.

* IntendedAudienceReaction: Beatrice is used by ThisWiki as the example of a "good" MarySue to show that TropesAreNotBad. Dante is similarly a "good" MartyStu[=/=]AntiStu.

* MemeticMutation: "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."

* WhatAnIdiot: Some of the {{Hypocrite}}s have this response to Virgil trusting the devils regarding how to cross over their tier of Malebolgia when, in fact, all of the bridges are broken. One essentially says "Lying is in the devil's nature. Weren't you aware of this?"

* WhatAnIdiot: Some of the {{Hypocrite}}s have this response to Virgil trusting the devils regarding how to cross over their tier of Malebogia when, in fact, all of the bridges are broken. One essentially says "Lying is in the devil's nature. Weren't you aware of this?"

** The story of Francesca and Paolo makes Dante cries and faint.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The Divine Comedy was initially more successful in France than in Britain.

* IntendedAudienceReaction: Beatrice is used by ThisWiki as the example of a "good" MarySue to show that TropesAreNotBad. Dante is similarly a "good" MartyStu.
** Dante isn't a MartyStu, he's got loads of character faults: he's cowardly, petty, violent at times and he submits himself to the penances for Pride, Lust, and Wrath in Purgatory. Beatrice's faultlessness can possibly be explained by the fact that Dante was madly in love with her when he wrote the poem.
*** He is also a MartyStu in the sense that he lavishes a ''huge'' amount of praise on his own writing skills. In Canto IV of ''Inferno'', Dante and Virgil meet up with the ghosts of Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. All five of these great poets from history -- the 4 they meet, and Virgil -- then accept Dante as a ''sixth member'' of their exalted group, as if to say he was their equal.
*** While there's no doubt that Dante was being a bit egotistical keep in mind that he is still studied centuries later and his work receives numerous allusions in modern fiction. He seems to be pretty on the level with them in terms of how much he influenced society.

!![[Music/TheDivineComedy The band itself]]

*** He ''absolutely breaks'' the system. He begins in hell, which is according to the actual biblical canon, supposed to be a permanent thing that ''none can escape''. He proceeds, through the power of a pagan philosopher and the woman he loves, to not only get out but make his way ''to heaven''. [[PuritySue Because said woman for no adequately explained reason has influence on the level of ]]''[[BeyondTheImpossible the Virgin Mary]]''. Dante is a ''very'' obvious Sue if you know how the Bible says all this works. Because Heaven and Hell simply ''do not work'' that way. This is an affront on the level of a fanfiction with, say, [[StarWars an OC getting the Jedi celibacy code revoked]], or [[StarTrek a badass Klingon voluntarily being able to join Starfleet with instant respect and no repercussions in the TOS period.]]

* TearJerker: Ugolino's backstory and tragic death.

!![[Literature/TheDivineComedy The epic novel]]

*** He ''absolutely breaks'' the system. He begins in hell, which is according to the actual biblical canon, supposed to be a permanent thing that ''none can escape''. He proceeds, through the power of a pagan philosopher and the woman he loves, to not only get out but make his way ''to heaven''. Because said woman for no adequately explained reason has influence on the level of ''the Virgin Mary''. Dante is a ''very'' obvious Sue if you know how the Bible says all this works. Because Heaven and Hell simply ''do not work'' that way. This is an affront on the level of a fanfiction with, say, [[StarWars an OC getting the Jedi celibacy code revoked]], or [[StarTrek a badass Klingon voluntarily being able to join Starfleet with instant respect and no repercussions in the TOS period.]]

!![[Literature/TheDivineComedy The novel]]

** Dante isn't a MartyStu, he's got loads of character faults: he's cowardly, petty, violent at times and he submits himself to the penances for Pride, Lust, and Wrath in Purgatory. Beatrice's faultlessness can possibly be explained by the fact that Dante was madly in love with her when he wrote the poem.