This provides great insight on Dante and how he thought of human language.
I am reminded how most of my life I thought Darwin's Origin of the Species was junk. I think I tried a half dozen times to read it, and it made no sense to me. Maybe I would read a half dozen pages on each of these tries before thinking it was junk. Then, I bought an audible version read by a guy with a deep British accent. Now I am of the same opinion as many that Darwin's origin is one of the greatest books and works of science of all time. Darwin was incredibly precient but it required a proper 'song' to be able to appreciate it.
I have long had similar difficulties with Dante's major work. His basic belief of what is worthy by how it sounds is pretty alien to me as a scientist, and proscribing sound as good or bad is disturbing to the poet in me. But, that said, his point is probably right.
Among the most impressive scientific paper of all time is where Einstein proposes E=mc^2 in four brief pages. It is how Einstein wrote it as much as what he wrote. Another case of pure poetry of the highest form imaginable. Even translated to English:
