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Dante: Michelangelo’s Bedtime Reading
Nowadays it’s hard to understand how that long poem, how any poem, could have meant so much to people. Educated men and women knew many verses of the Divine Comedy by heart. Even private letters are filled with quotes and … Continue reading
Posted in art, history, literature, Michelangelo, Renaissance
Tagged circles of Hell, Dante, Divine Comedy, hell, Homer, Illiad, Inferno, Italian literature, Odyssey, poetry, Virgil
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