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Bomarzo

by Manuel Mujica Lainez

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"Truly serendipitous selection by the book club. It appears to feature prominently the two subjects which have lately been rattling around upstairs: Sculpture and Dante. Hopefully I can keep up." — Feb 24, 2026 05:52AM

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The Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

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"First read this 10 years ago in an antiquated translation, possibly even prose, with zero annotations, before I knew how to select the matching edition on here, when the only lit that interested me was the DFW-sphere, and rated the thing three stars. Thank god human beings are capable of change." — Feb 23, 2026 09:41AM

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