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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main draw of Dante's masterpiece remains the universal truth of its central story--that of finding oneself spiritually lost. Dante writes in the first tercet, the story of the pilgrim's journey is that of "nostra vita," "our life," not just his. And Dante's guide through hell, Virgil, observes in canto XII: "It is necessity,/And not just pleasure, that puts him on this road...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Pinsky's Hell of a Good Inferno | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

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