At first glance, it is quite surprising that a Pope feels responsible or that he simply finds the time to write instructional letters about literature.
And then about the “Divine Comedy”, a poem in which many popes appear, but often in a bad light.
In the “Inferno”, for example, where the agony of sinners in the hereafter is described, the popes are put upside down in circular mud holes, all on top of each other.