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You don’t need a university library card to study Dante seriously. The resources available for free online are extraordinary—and they’re only getting better. I spent years assuming rigorous Dante scholarship required expensive institutional access. Then I discovered how much is genuinely available to anyone with an internet connection. What follows is the resource guide I … Read more

Dante’s Comedy is a theological poem. You can enjoy it without understanding the theology, but you’ll miss the architecture. The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia — free, public domain, available at newadvent.org — is the single best tool for filling those gaps. I discovered this by accident. While reading Paradiso, I hit a footnote about the Beatific … Read more