An interesting idea: imagine a modern-day interviewer asking Dante modern-day questions. Take a look at this

http://www.danteonline.it/english/interviste_indice.htm

Then backtrack onto this English version of an Italian website.

http://www.danteonline.it/english/home_ita.asp

And don't forget, Google will automatically translate sites for you.

I have got to learn to read and listen to Italian. If I had that knowledge I could go here.

http://www.greatdante.net/croce.htm

And of course Dante appears constantly in modern cultural icons like movies. Here is talk about references to Dante in the movie Hannibal.

http://www.greatdante.net/hannibal.htm

Sounds like an Italian Supermarket, but simply refers to the modern-day palimpsest that is the hypermedic Internet. Follow the authors as they worm their way down into Dante.

And don't forget to check out the "3D" view of Hell.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/hell/

Interesting collection of Dante Title Pages and a good chronology as well.

http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/

Get down into Dante's home town, the one that exiled him, the one that eventually produced the Medici family.

Check out Satan in this Florentine mosaic. Remind you of anything.