Father was all about making us memorize lessons of the Greats Who Came Before Us. Said we'd miss subtleties if we bothered with translations, so original tongue was it. I didn't much care to hear about Alighieri's exploits, such as they were, but his shitlist of who went to hell and how? Creative. Something about-- Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, blah blah blah. Middle of my life, dark wood, all that.