I’ve never read Dante. For some reason, and I love Doré, I couldn’t get past the illustrations. I need to be more open-minded!
You have my curiosity piqued! I’m gonna download a text file. We never read Dante in school- although I’m no scholar... I have read books on Purgatory and the Catholic teaching thereof, but it might be fun to see his take on it. Lord knows, it’s quoted often enough- I’ve even referred to annoying circumstances as “the _th circle of hell”!