Dante's Muhammed

All in all, i found Dr. Frank's essay interesting. The idea that Dante placed Muhammed in the eighth circle of hell due to a misunderstanding was very odd to me. Would someone really do that to the prophet of a major religion without doing a little bit of fact checking? or could it be that the false information Dante had was taken as fact at the time? I look forward to the discussion today in class, i expect it will be very interesting.