and political sections strongly support the notion that for Dante geography was destiny: "All the people who are central to Dante's history, both his personal tragedy as a failed politician, and to his imaginative life as author of the Comedy, grew up a few blocks away from one another, cheek by jowl in the high-towered Via San Martino." It doesn't, then, seem so surprising that in the Comedy Dante consciously conveyed people's fates by their physical locations, whether placing them in the ditches of Hell's Malebolge or in the dancing rose of Heaven.from The Barnes and Noble Review: Dante in Love
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