I speak Latin to my satisfaction; learning Italian is my next "language quest" I have lined up after I finish Chinese (see my HSK6 question for details). I want to learn Italian for the effectively sole purpose of reading the Divine Comedy, which is my favorite work of literature (and tied with Maxwell's equations for my favorite human creation).

I will probably only attempt to start reading the Commedia after spending some time learning modern Italian. Note that Dante's Italian is purportedly pretty different from modern Italian, but in a way that is Latinate, and I don't know how hard I anticipate interpolating to be. The skill level bar to start reading is something like "can read, however slowly, without directly translating into English" - for Latin, this took me a year, of which about three months were highly focused effort.

Question resolves YES if I do, no if I don't. Technicalities resolve at my discretion.