/lit/ - Literature

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The footnotes by Peter Bondanella in my copy of Inferno made it really clear that Dante was a massive Aeneid and Virgil fanboy, but he would have never read Illiad or Odyssey directly despite referencing their characters, getting his knowledge about Homers epics through osmosis. But it never really explained why.

Did no one really read or know of Homer again until the Renaissance?

I liked Comus.
There was also one I liked he wrote while in a cottage in the country side, but I forget the name.