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All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
—Hell. Canto iii. Line 9.
Dante
Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
 
1265–1321, Italian poet, b. Florence. Dante was the author of the Divine Comedy, one of the greatest of literary classics.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)
 
Pronunciation:  dän´t ä´´l-gy´r from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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The Divine Comedy
The height of the fall-and-redemption genre that would influence every generation of writer since. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XX.
 
Bartlett’s Dante Alighieri Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
 
Dante Alighieri, 15747 to 15761
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
 
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