`Dante’s vision of the Afterlife in The Divine Comedy influenced the Renaissance, the Reformation and helped give us the modern world''

``The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what she accomplished. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which she has thus far so nobly advanced.’’ (paraphrasing Lincoln's Gettysburg Address)

Cf. also: https://www.shakespearesworld.org/#!/