Dr. Junius Johnson

Yeah, yeah.

And then that was a big event at Yale, and we went to that together.

Yeah, that was great.

Wesley, what about you?

So I have to say this because folks know that I'm not the biggest fan of modern stuff.

There's a reason that Eliot keeps coming up here, and that is that he is so deeply influenced by Dante.

That shows in the lines that Father Wesley read there, and it shows throughout the poetry.

And so Eliot is a wonderful companion for Dante.

Okay.

Eliot in your life.

I'll be the most reluctant convert in England.

And I – well, I would just recommend reading everything written in the Middle Ages.

I think that's probably – Reasonable.

But to be more realistic, I'll mention a few things.

C.S.

Lewis is the discarded image because more than anything, we did do a warm-up episode on Dantean cosmology, but I think at this point going deeper into that is really helpful.

Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio, the great successor to Dante, wrote the first biography of Dante, and it's available, The Life of Dante, Vincenzo Zimbolettino did a translation in 1990, so you can look at that, and I think that's, it's really fascinating to see what somebody who is the next generation after Dante, how he talks about this poet's life, and he's the one who refers to

of course, calls the commedia divine for the first time.

And that's why we call it the divine comedy.

So I think that's a really interesting connection.