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Imagine your father writes the greatest poem in your language. Now imagine sitting down to explain it to the world. That’s exactly what Pietro and Jacopo Alighieri did—and their commentaries are fully public domain. Dante died in 1321. Within a year, his sons were already at work interpreting the Divine Comedy for readers who struggled … Read more

“`html Most people know that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translated Dante. Far fewer realize that his notes are arguably more valuable than the translation itself—and they’re completely free. I discovered this by accident. While hunting for a modern Dante edition, I stumbled onto Project Gutenberg and found Longfellow’s 1867 Divine Comedy with full scholarly apparatus. What … Read more