If this post can be ruled to be germane to Latin (it seems a couple of Dante questions have been), I was wondering whether there are resources online or in print for getting just enough Italian to begin to read Dante’s Italian. I say Dante’s because in my ignorance its relation to modern Italian is not wholly clear to me. If William Blake could do it, there must be many more resources now. I just don’t seem to be able to find them.
See this post http://discourse.textkit.com/t/early-modern-italian-in-relation-to-latin-reading/13635/1
Basically, learn Italian (impara l’italiano). 