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Dante: Inferno to Paradise

Dante Knows

Discover Dante's motivation for writing, the power of The Divine Comedy, and the meaning of the character who travels through Inferno to Purgatory to Paradise.

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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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