Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Great Regulars: Despite Dante's political troubles

but also quite possibly because of them, we remember his accomplishment in his major poem touted by some as the greatest poem of the Middle Ages. Although it suffers from the major flaw of assigning Mohammed, the Islamic prophet, to Hell, The Divine Comedy is, nevertheless, a masterpiece that deserves all the attention it continues to attract.

from Linda Sue Grimes: BellaOnline: Dante Alighieri--A Political and Spiritual Poet

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