Historical documents.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