Books:

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Podcasts:

Dante’s History

Dante’s Divine Comedy

Essays/Papers:

“Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” by Audre Lorde

“Ovid and Parody in Dante’s Inferno” by Thomas E. Peterson

“Inferno XXXIII: The Past and the Present in Dante’s Imagery of Betrayal” by William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman

“Dante’s Monsters: Nature and Evil in the “Commedia”” by Christopher Livanos

“The Poet’s Inner Child: Early Childhood and Spiritual Growth in Dante’s “Commedia”” by James F. McMenamin

“”Amicus eius”: Dante and the Semantics of Friendship” by Teodolinda Barolini

“A Beautiful Friendship: Dante and Vergil in the “Commedia”” by Guy P. Raffa

“The Art of Teaching and the Nature of Love” from Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy by Paola Nasti

“Dante’s Two Beloveds: Ethics as Erotic Choice” by Olivia Holmes

“Gisberg’s Inferno: Dante and “Howl”” by Jeffrey Meyers

“Sylvia Plath’s Use of Dantean Structure” by Laura Chérau

“Embodiment in the “Commedia”: Dante’s Exilic and Poetic Self-Consciousness” by Yeo Wei Wei

“The Word Made Flesh in Inferno 5: Francesca Reading and the Figure of the Annunciation” by Martin Eisner

“True Desire, True Being, and Truly Being a Poet” by Janet Soskice

Websites:

http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/

Articles:

“Reading Dante as a Feminist” by Sophie Stuber

“Dante, Erotic Love, and The Path To God” by Mark Vernon

https://drmarkvernon.medium.com/dante-erotic-love-and-the-path-to-god-9a3ca5fc05d6

“Dante and Desire” by Michael Rennier

“Dante and the Liturgical Formation of Desire” by Randall S. Rosenburg

https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/dante-and-the-liturgical-formation-of-desire/