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Episode #163- What Was The Galileo Affair? (Part I)

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How Big Is Dontae's Hell?

In 1588, an aspiring young academic hoping to make a name for himself took on this puzzle. The men most concerned with the question of hell's dimensions were overwhelmingly from the northern Italian city-state of Florence. When they asked how big is hell, what they meant more specifically was how big is Dontae's hell? Such was the fame of Dontae and the esteemed place of the Commedia amongst the literature of the day that for these Florentines, DontAE's hell might as well be the real thing.

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