Digital Dante Project - ILT

This links to a translation I trust (the Mandelbaum one, it is very literal) of Dante's Divine Comedy, arguably the greatest epic ever written.

Dante is one of the first people to put forth the idea of a separation of Church and State - cf. "De Monarchia." The Comedy certainly argues for that in places while making a very subtle theological critique. Again, an understanding of Catholicism is crucial for the project: this one of the most complicated works ever written, too.