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Cover of a 1954 sound recording of Dante Alighieri’s “The Inferno,” translated and read by John Ciardi (Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, via Courthouse News)
FLORENCE, Italy | AFP | Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” considered one of the world’s greatest literary works, came to light after a miscarriage of justice which Italian legal experts now want to correct some seven centuries on. 
The man whom Italians call the “Supreme Poet” was exiled from his native Florence in January 1302, after finding himself on the losing side of a feud between the city’s “White” and “Black” political factions.  ....

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