What Bible books are necessary for reading the Divine Comedy?

Seconded.

Reading Bible atm and want to read Divine Comedy afterwards. Is there any other important influences/references I should read beforehand?

The Divine Comedy is basically just Biblical fanfiction. You just need to know the major players.

If you live in a Christian country you already have enough knowledge. I've only read Genesis, one of the gospels, and Romans, and had no problem understanding anything, but if I'd not read those I'd most likely have understood everything perfectly well anyways.

Kazantzakis wrote an introduction about it in his translation, it contains succintly all the information you need. You should look that up as a first step.

Just get a good scholarly/annotated edition famalam

>>9298977
Aquinas' Summa Theologiae

Borges' advice for OP and others:
>...I would like to insist that no one has the right to deprive himself of this pleasure the ― Commedia―of reading it in an open way. Later come the commentaries, the desire to know what each mythological allusion means, to see how Dante took a great line of Virgil and perhaps improved it by translating it. In the beginning we must read the book with the faith of a child, abandoning ourselves to it; then it will accompany us to the end. It has accompanied me for so many years, and I know that as soon as I open it tomorrow I will discover things I did not see before.

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>>9298838
>tfw the divine comedy is ancient fanfiction about a poet traveling to a fantasy realm he had been brought up to believe in with his favorite poet of yore.

>tfw if you wrote a story about how you and Isaac Asimov travel to the realm from Hellraiser together it would never fly, no matter how well written, let alone become a praised piece of historical art.

I took a course on Dante in uni. We used the Princeton Dante Project for our reading of the text.

Danteworlds is another good resource.

If a work wholly depends on references, then it's not great.

>>9299264
pretty simplistic, dude. the Commedia is much more than that.

>>9298977
Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virgil's Aeneid.

>>9299252
ok buying weed and going in fresh

Just get a good annotated edition like Durling or Singleton. It'll contain the references you want.

>>9299252
Did he read it in Italian? (fuck off pedants)