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Dante's Hell, I suddenly realise, has the same atmosphere as only one other setting I've ever stumbled across in literature: Tolkien's Mordor.
Jan 11, 2026 01:30PM
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Suzannah Rowntree
Suzannah Rowntree is on page 200 of 346
More protestants should critique highly respected churchmen with the same vim Dante critiques literal popes of his own day.
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Suzannah Rowntree
Suzannah Rowntree is on page 103 of 346
maybe I'm basic but I've always had a soft spot for Francesca, and Dante writes her so compassionately.

which ALMOST makes up for the fact that he has Julius Caesar enjoying a virtuous pagan existence in Limbo while Cleopatra is being blown around in the circle of Lust.
Jan 11, 2026 01:57AM
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Suzannah Rowntree
Suzannah Rowntree is on page 35 of 346
the guelphs and ghibellines always do my head in
Jan 08, 2026 12:55PM
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