Did Shakespheare know about Dante?

In the article a question of wheater Shakespeare knew about the works of DAnte is posed. The writer says that many of Shakespeare's works could not have been written without prior outside knowledge of Dante. In a weird way the author is right, but is that taking away from the credibility and originality of Shakespeare. Not in the least. In fact it gives rise to how he could take and a dapt a Italian story to the English speaking world.
This argument has faults, because it doesn't really fully explain how Shakespeare would know Italian, and evn if he did how would eh do the adaptations so fast. In the end the pros outway the cons in my opinion, and with a couple generations difference between the two it's certainly possible for Dante to have reached England.