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WOF 432: Who is Dante Alighieri?

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

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Exploring Dante Alighieri's Exile and the Divine Comedy

This chapter delves into Dante Alighieri's exile, condemned to death in absentia, and his subsequent 19 years of wandering. It discusses his inability to return to Florence, leading him to write the Commedia, which explores the journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise with significant symbolism related to the number three.

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