Finished outlining the simple versions of the Divine Comedy today. I started reading Harold Bloom’s notes on Dante’s Inferno. I got the online version from the Penn State Library System. You go PSU Library!

Harold Bloom rocks for literature. He is a Yale professor, who was born in 1930.

Here’s picture of him:

Picture from: paginasdeespuma.com –

Harold Bloom compiled a collection of children’s stories that I grew up on. The book is called is my favorite children’s hands down.

Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages

There was a section in Harold Bloom’s Dante’s Inferno on describing more events in Dante’s Life. Reading that section made me think basing parts of the main character “College Guy” more on Dante than what is written in the Divine Comedy.

Here’s what it said about Dante,

“Around this time he probably also wrote his three volume Latin treatise De Monarchia (On World Government), in which he argued that the rule of a monarchy is necessary for peace; that imperial authority rests with the Romans, specifically the Holy Roman Emperor; and that the authority of the Roman emperor is derived directly from God, independent of the pope. The work was condemned by the church, and Dante’s hopes for imperial rule in Florence ended when Henry VII died in 1313.”

I was thinking making “College Guy” really like a world leader. Somehow I can play that into the novel…

I’m cut short today on time. I’m taking this weekend off and start writing Monday. Enjoy the weekend!