Historical documents. What clues can you gather about Dante Alighieri, the time, place, players, and culture?
The Divine Comedy
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Harvard Classics edition
Vita Nuova
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Dante's love poem to Beatrice.
Convivio
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Dante's unfinished meditation on philosophy.
Monarchia
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Dante's treatise on the relationship between church and state.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Dante's entry in the online text.
Dethroning Dante
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1965 article from Time magazine.
Mr. Longfellow's Dante
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An 1867 of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's translation of The Inferno.