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Dante's iron . . . hypocrites
The reference is to Inferno 23.58ff. Here at the end of the volume we are recalled to the "hell of intense tortures" with which it began (II:1:1).
The reference is to Inferno 23.58ff. Here at the end of the volume we are recalled to the "hell of intense tortures" with which it began (II:1:1).