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The Divine Comedy (Inferno VIII-IX), by Dante Alighieri

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Apr 16, 2022 • 13m

The city of Dis, within the gates of Hell, was guarded by monsters and surrounded by a moat filled with the tormented. Dante, protected by Virgil, entered the forbidden city, and viewed sights never before seen by living man. (Volume 20, Harvard Classics)

Dante urges attack on the city of Florence, April 16, 1311.

 

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