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Dante: Michelangelo’s Bedtime Reading

Posted on March 9, 2013 by 100swallows

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 →

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