/lit/ - Literature

>>13124110
>Look how much of the Divine Comedy, perhaps the greatest work of literature since Antiquity, is spent on btfoing random florentines that nobody would even care to remember if they weren't in the book ?
I mean, I'm pretty sure they must have been a big deal and of much importance to the writer at the time lmao, so he just made sure he got his point across.

>>13124110
>I'll let you imagine how it is for 13th century Franciscan scholar n°432.
Yeah, but you're talking about the Middle Ages where literally everything and every academic subject was shit. Philosophy was probably held in much higher regard in the 19th and the 20th Century and sure as hell the philosophy departments weren't filled with as many pseuds and crumbling in infrastructure, nor druggies lmao.