Dante's "Divine Comedy" is at the pinnacle of medieval literature and the poetic adaptation of scholastic theology. At the same time, it opened the door to the Renaissance, which meant a new beginning, not just in literature, but also in painting, sculpture, architecture, and music. Starting in Italy, the Renaissance spread throughout Europe, its humanism drawing on antiquity to create new forms of religiosity as well.

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Jan Rohls, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.