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David Lafferty

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Author of "Afterlife - An Introduction to Dante's Inferno" and "Penance - In Introduction to Dante's Purgatory". Keyboard player in Los Angeles area. ...more

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Dante’s Divine Comedy is a journey through the afterlife of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, written by one of the greatest classical poets in history. Here are ten reasons why this great work of literature should still be read today. 1. The Divine Comedy is a gripping and fascinating journey through the afterlife unequaled in literature. … Continue reading "10 Reasons to Read Dante"

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	Afterlife: An Introduction to Dante's Inferno 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penance: An Introduction to Dante's Purgatory 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	McSe Testprep SQL Server 6.5 Administration (McSe Testprep Series) by Sean Baird, Rob Scrimger, David Lafferty (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso

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“Art is a serious matter”
― umberto eco

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“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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