Answer:
Both are enhanced by the political experience of their writers yet the structures lead to altogether different encounters one opens into the farmland with a crisp basic language, sound pre-Protestant doubt of the Catholic Church; alternate supports the peruser into the down lift of Catholic Orthodoxy and traditional non-literal and exquisitely trained Italian—in any event that is so for those of us who have perused just "The Inferno" and lifted at the contributions on the up lift.