[Borges]

An excerpt because the original has too much formatting. Well worth reading.

[PGR88]

Thank you for posting that.

[definitelynotaliberal]

Yes, I agree. It was well worth reading, indeed! Thanks for posting it.

[mjp]

In the high middle ages, the comprehensive cosmological paradigm was the combination of Aristotle and Ptolemy.
The addition of Dante’s view created the moral and religious aspect of this paradigm of the medieval era.

[Dixie Mom]

Excellent, thank you. For anyone interested, Hillsdale College offers a free online course studying The Divine Comedy here: https://online.hillsdale.edu/landing/dantes-divine-comedy

[hinckley buzzard]

Characters in la Commedia were based on real people, bankers and prelates and such, with whom Dante had issues. Much of it based on the political antagonism between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines.

[Rappini]

I second on the posting.

[zeugma]

Free EBooks by Dante Aligheri HERE. Multiple formats.

[ClearCase_guy]

bfl

People used to read the Great Books for a reason.

Nowadays, they read Toni Morrison instead.

[Verginius Rufus]

Marco Polo's account of his travels (said to have been dictated to a fellow prisoner of war) must have been a few years before the Divine Comedy and was not in Latin.

The old cliche about Dante is that he had one foot in the Middle Ages and one foot in the Renaissance.

[Borges]

Baylor is doing a “100 Days of Dante” and posting a video addressing each canto on each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIgOjeO1UMUfM7hbaMUDcE9NJdrDV45oY