Which statement best summarizes the plot of the Divine Comedy?
A. It's about a character who speaks out against Catholicism and
gets excommunicated from the church.
B. It centers around the travels of a man who desperately wants to
find his lost love so he may spend eternity with her.
C. It's about a man goes to war and compares his experience to
visiting Hell.
D. It tells the story of a man who journeys through Hell and Purgatory
so that he can enter Heaven.
The plot of The Divine Comedy is simple: a man, generally assumed to be Dante himself, is miraculously enabled to undertake an ultramundane journey, which leads him to visit the souls in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.