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... Dante was a prominent member of the city council in Florence from 1295 until his own exile in 1301 ; he served immediately after a time of crisis , the struggle for power between the magnates , or wealthy and powerful , and the popolo ...
... Dante was a prominent member of the city council in Florence from 1295 until his own exile in 1301 ; he served immediately after a time of crisis , the struggle for power between the magnates , or wealthy and powerful , and the popolo ...
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... Dante wrote that masterpiece of precision , thirty - three cantos each , of Hell , Purgatory , and Paradise . In Dante , Love and Justice become inseparable . We remember , if only by reputation , that Dante survived his Hell and ...
... Dante wrote that masterpiece of precision , thirty - three cantos each , of Hell , Purgatory , and Paradise . In Dante , Love and Justice become inseparable . We remember , if only by reputation , that Dante survived his Hell and ...
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... Dante and with Tu Fu , let me close by quoting a quatrain from Senzaki , one which would , I'm sure , please Tu Fu and Dante both , one which serves as epigraph to one of the greatest long poems of our century : In the moonlight , The ...
... Dante and with Tu Fu , let me close by quoting a quatrain from Senzaki , one which would , I'm sure , please Tu Fu and Dante both , one which serves as epigraph to one of the greatest long poems of our century : In the moonlight , The ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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