SOURCE: "Hell: Topography and Demography," in Diversity of Dante, Rutgers University Press, 1969, pp. 47-64.
In the following essay, the Inferno is esteemed—more so than the other two books of the Commedia—as an example of "sublime " storytelling and dramatic description of personality and scene.
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