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Dante: Inferno to Paradise

Crisis of Exile

Explore the despair and anger Dante felt after being unjustly exiled from Florence, and how his exile and the death of Beatrice Portinari motivated his writing — and ultimately the creation of The Divine Comedy.

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Explore the afterlife and literary and cultural fate of Dante’s masterpiece.
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See medieval Florence from 1216 to Dante's birth in 1265, his child, education and more.
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