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A Map of Dante’s Purgatorio in Three Touchstones

In the first part of this essay, I provided the rationale and method of offering a series of “touchstones” by way of which we might “map” the whole of Dante’s Divine Comedy. My chief aim is to speak of a very small number of parts of the poem that seem
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A Map of Dante’s Inferno in Three Touchstones

Introduction and a Map of the Inferno “It is now customary to speak of Dante as the Catholic poet, even as Milton is called the Protestant poet,” lamented Harold Bloom nearly four decades ago; in consequence, readers “seem to have learned to read Dante precisely as they would read theology.”[1]
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