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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.   Dante Alighieri

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Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante, (c. June 1 1265 - September 13/14, 1321) was an Italian Florentine poet. His greatest work, la Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), is considered one of the greatest literary statements produced in Europe during the Middle Ages.

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