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´I truly thought I´d never make it back.´

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´I truly thought I´d never make it back.´

Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from Dante´s Inferno.

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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Dante´s works available in Penguin Classics are Inferno , Purgatorio , Paradiso , The Divine Comedy and Vita Nuova .

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Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. He met Beatrice, who was to be his muse, in 1274, and when she died in 1290 he sought distraction in philosophy and theology, and wrote La Vita Nuova . He worked on the Divine Comedy from 1308 until near the time of his death in Ravenna in 1321.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Dante´s works available in Penguin Classics are Inferno , Purgatorio , Paradiso , The Divine Comedy and Vita Nuova .

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