
WOF 432: Who is Dante Alighieri?
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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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