For many centuries, the need to make discoveries has motivated people to move forward. The impulse expressed by the Latin word CURIOSITAS forces the inquisitive mind to constantly ask questions, pushing us to search for answers: why are we here? What motivates everyone? what then? Curiositas as “the desire to know” is the natural curiosity that draws us into the endless and painstaking process of learning. According to Alberto Mangel, the explanation for many obscure phenomena can be found in books that, over the centuries, have absorbed everything that people learned about the world around them, consciously or intuitively. One of these important books for the author was The Divine Comedy. Dante Alighieri's poem summarizes the tragic experience of mankind and echoes motifs heard in the works of other authors and eras, from antiquity to modern times. The writings of Socrates and Plato, sacred writings, the texts of Thomas Aquinas, Lewis Carroll, Franz Kafka and Primo Levi, or the language of modern advertising - all these are the sources of our idea of ourselves and attempts to comprehend the events that happen to us through logos and imagination. The reader is offered an excursion into the history of curiosity; a story about ways of understanding the world, reflected in literature, philosophy and ancient written monuments.