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The divine comedy full audiobook by dante alighieri part 1. The poems imaginative and allegorical vision of the afterlife is a culmination of the medieval worldview as it had developed in the western church. The authoritative translations of the inferno, the purgatorio, and the paradisotogether in one volume. Dante is forced to return to the forest where he meets the spirit of virgil, who promises to lead him on a journey through hell so.
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