What Italian title is commonly used for The Divine Comedy?

The Italian title commonly used for The Divine Comedy is La Divina Commedia.

Dante Alighieri’s poem was originally called Comedìa, or simply Commedia. The adjective divina was added later because of the poem’s elevated style and sacred subject matter, especially its journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.

The phrase La Divina Commedia became established through a 1555 Venetian edition prepared by the humanist Lodovico Dolce and printed by Gabriele Giolito de’ Ferrari. Giovanni Boccaccio had used the adjective divina earlier in writing about Dante, but it was the sixteenth-century edition that helped make the expanded title standard.

The poem is divided into three cantiche: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. It was written in Tuscan vernacular rather than Latin and played a major role in establishing Tuscan as the foundation of standard literary Italian. Modern scholarly editions may sometimes use Commedia alone, but La Divina Commedia remains the familiar Italian title.