(August 29, 2017 at 10:14 pm)Fireball Wrote: I've seen it posited that the work was a sort of fiction novel of the time. Of course, some religious organizations are using it to great effect.
A little known fact, the Italian language as we know it today owes its status to Dante and the divine comedy, and the agent that made Dante's Italian the Italian of the modern Italy is as anti-clerical as one can get.