Inferno
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Suggestions for Further Reading
Alighieri, Dante. Paradiso. Trans. John Ciardi. New York: New American Library, 1987.
———. Purgatorio. Trans. John Ciardi. New York: New American Library, 1987.
Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Trans. Willard R. Trask. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1953.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Dante’s The Divine Comedy: Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.
Chiarenza, Marguerite. The Divine Comedy: Tracing God’s Art. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989.
Himmelfarb, Martha. Tours of Hell: An Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.
Tierney, Brian, ed. The Crisis of the Church & State: 1050–1300. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1964.
another thing:
by yummymeats, March 17, 2013
in Christian and Jewish tradition, Satan was an angel who betrayed his benefactor (God). i think that this makes fraud rather suitable as the 9th circle and also explains his bat wings.
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