 Philosophy was also done in the medieval Latin world outside the universities, although historians are only just beginning to recognize  it.[20]  Indeed, some of the most famous and widely studied vernacular literary masterpieces of the period are also works of philosophy. The most obvious example is Dante’s Divina Commedia, a study in Italian verse of love and moral conduct through an allegory of humans’ post mortem destiny. Although without a university education,  Dante  (who also wrote a highly original Latin treatise on politics) engages with the great thirteenth-century thinkers—Aquinas and his teacher, Albert the Great and, especially, the Arts Masters—on equal terms and as an original thinker (Imbach 1996; De Libera, Brenet, &amp; Rosier-Catach 2019).