The Divine Comedy: How Dante Provided A New World Theory

The Divine Comedy is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkh2xlLmKzY

The Divine Comedy, illustrated by Gustave Doré is available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8800

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... and the gateway drug for getting into Dante is Niven & Pournelle's 1970s SF novel about a science fiction writer who dies and goes to the Inferno, eventually figuring out what's going on.

I even got a friend who's an academic specializing in Dante to publish a review.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Niven_and_Pournelle_novel)

Inferno (Niven and Pournelle novel) - Wikipedia