The Divine Comedy, written between 1307 and 1321, could not have seen the light without the Rimes. There are the precursor themes of Comedy: love, the quest for bliss, but also the political quarrels of the time. Beatrice also made an appearance there. Written throughout the life of Dante's adult, these poems give a new and more accessible view of The Divine Comedy: they reveal the stylistic firstfruits, but also announce the political and social concerns that always animated Dante, and whose Transfigurations the Comedy offers. In Jacqueline Risset's masterful translation, these poetic works, which bring together the Rimes and The Divine Comedy for the first time, reveal above all what his poetry approaches to the condition of every human being, shared between the incarnation in an uncertain political, social and intellectual world and the aspiration for eternal peace.