Dante’s Masterpiece ‘La Divina Commedia’ is Actually Fanfiction

Original Artwork by R.E. Parish

It doesn’t come as a surprise that a growing number of today’s bestselling books were originally written as fanfiction. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James was originally Twilight fanfiction, The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare was based on the Harry Potter novels, and After by Anna Todd was first published on Wattpad in the #OneDirection category. But writing…