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...been confined in this dreadful place, I have suffered the most savage physical and psychological tortures...Also, the constant sounds of chains and gates and the frequent cries and pleas of women prisoners that get lost in the echo of the cold walls convert this place into a Dantesque inferno that I have tolerated only by the mercy and grace of God. The more they torture me, the more I seek God, the more I cling to the feet of Christ, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, not death...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: The Conscience of Cuba | 10/8/2003 | See Source »

...late 15th century, when Florence blossomed in the humanist atmosphere of the Medici court before being swallowed up by the fire-and-brimstone fervor of the Dominican monk Savonarola. Along with several of Botticelli's delicate Madonnas, the show's highlights include a colored-ink Map of the Inferno illustration for Dante's The Divine Comedy, and St. Augustine in his cell, a fresco for Florence's Ognissanti church later transposed to canvas. It will go to Florence's Palazzo Strozzi (March 10-July 11) after the Paris run. The scion of a wealthy Montpellier family, the ebullient young Impressionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paris Collections | 9/28/2003 | See Source »

...their fearless leader. Linebackers coach Jim Butler calls him “one of the best linebackers in the history of the Ivy League.” Opposing offensive coordinators go through hell trying to avoid him. Some may think of Dante’s Inferno. But this Dante’s heard that one already...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dante, Linebackers Look To Give Opponents Hell | 9/17/2003 | See Source »

...been hearing the Dante’s Inferno joke since my freshman year of high school,” senior linebacker Dante Balestracci said. “I think it’s pretty funny, though...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dante, Linebackers Look To Give Opponents Hell | 9/17/2003 | See Source »

That’s why I go running in the mornings, around 6 a.m., before the temperature reaches Inferno conditions...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, | Title: We Want You in the Navy, Too | 7/3/2003 | See Source »

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