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the human condition； we differ less from our past than we might like to
believe。 T。 S。 Eliot understood this when he wrote 〃Dante and Shakespeare
divide the modern world between them； there is no third。〃 So now Dante
joins Shakespeare （e…text #100） in the Project Gutenberg collection。 Two
works that influenced Dante are also part of the collection： The Bible （#10）
and Virgil's Aeneid （#227）。 Other major influencesSt。 Thomas of
Aquinas' Summa Theologica； The Metamorphoses of Ovid； and Aristotle's
Nicomachean Ethicsare available in electronic form at other Internet
sites。 If one searches enough he may even find a computer rendering of the
Danteum on the Internet。 By presenting this electronic text to Project
Gutenberg it is my hope that in will not rest in a computer unknown and
unread； it is my hope that artists will see themselves in the Divine Comedy
and be inspired； just as Dante ran the paths left by Virgil and St。 Thomas
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THE DIVINE COMEDY
that led him to the stars。
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