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Power Struggles, Malaria, a Hidden Corpse: Dante’s Life Was Weird and His Death Weirder
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The poet of the ‘Inferno’ suffered through papal intrigue and exile—and people have been fighting over his bones for 700 years.
Candida Moss
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Sep. 19 2021
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