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Dante's inferno
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I dont know how to read and didn't finish the videogame so idk how accurate this is
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Very very accurate, he also sprinkles in some "all the dead super
genius 
writers and poets all tell me that they love my work" and his guide through heck is Virgil, his personal favourite
I do recommend reading
it though considering it's impact you read some of the stuff and it's like you mean this was written seven 
HUNDRED years ago???
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I disagree with this assessment - the reason for the limbo section is illustrating a potential solution to the problem of virtuous people dying before Christ redeemed them. The bit about Vergil is true tho lol he even suggests that Vergil is intentionally moving slower up the mountain to spend more time with him
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Yeah its hyperbole a bit but tbf when we were doing purgatory in school
it was immensely boring 
and ive never 
been a fan of it
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Most of the English translations aren't very good but students used to be fluent in Latin which helps a lot in understanding Italian, and were a lot more familiar with epic poetry which helps with the metre and literary devices. the Divine Comedy was extremely influential, and is very important within the literary canon, but most of the things it did that were groundbreaking have been copied so many times that they don't seem unique anymore
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I read it in italian
lol i definitely remember the first 
time i learned that what we were reading 
was literally 
what dante wrote it was definitely a big shock 
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Reading in the original is always best. Have you read any Calvino? I've always wondered what his style is like in Italian
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I'm gonna
be completely honest and say that even though I was definitely assigned stuff of his to read in school 
I never 
have 
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Michelangelo was fricking mad at this dude for telling him to cover all his nude art, so he painted him with jackass ears and a fricking snake chomping his wang in the fricking Final Judgment wall in the fricking Sistene Chapel
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I love how Renaissance artists were just always bootyblasted about something and used their art to dab on their enemies
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Very
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