The poem is in four cantos, the first of which is the best, and the most characteristic of the author. |
It is written in hendecasyllabic ottava rima, and is divided into ten cantos containing in all 1102 stanzas. |
Of her thousands of unpublished writings, including a novel and cantos commemorating John Brown, some fifty remain. |
The commission, all 100 cantos of the poem illustrated on sheepskin parchment for what was probably intended as a kind of luxury book, was never completed. |
Furthermore, Dante's work is divided into three canticles and each canticle is then divided into thirty-three cantos. |
The book is divided into six cantos, describing the plan of the city, the monuments and the technological marvels of those days. |