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Jul 2021
2h 18m

Dante, Inferno

Michael Lavers
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Claire and I walk with Dante and Virgil through hell. Along the way, we talk about all manner of things: pity, sin, reading, love, exploration, tradition, heresy, truth, and most of all why Dante is important to us, just two common readers, in the 21st century. 

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