
The Myth of Dante's Thomism? Reading Aquinas and Dante with the Dominicans | Prof. George Corbett
The Thomistic Institute
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Foster's Theology of Dante's Commedia
Foster thought Dante was doing a literal interpretive approach to the Commedia. What I would argue is that Dante is not intending that as dogmatic theology. He's trying to explore and express in his poetic world, which is an invented eschatology. The limber of the virtuous pagans is Dante's way of representing in the afterlife.
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