When Dante's Commedia became divine

Dante may have been the most imaginative and transgressive medieval poet, but he was also one of the most immodest authors since Antiquity. It is well known that what we came to call 'The Divine Comedy' ("La Divina Commedia") was initially known simply as 'La Commedia di Dante Alaghieri di Fiorenze'. It was Boccaccio who later added the epithet 'divina'…