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The first of the 3 canticles in La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), this 14th-century allegorical poem begins Dante's imaginary journey from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise with his sojourn among the damned. There he encounters historical and mythological creatures -- each symbolic of a particular vice or crime. Translated beautifully by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth is the author of 'Inferno ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780486442884 and ISBN 0486442888.
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