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I'm bit past it now but it's wild that in one of the Mercury cantos Dante argues the Roman empire had proper jurisdiction to put Christ to death, so to this day the empire should rule everyone. ...but in the next canto he argues that it was right for Jerusalem to be destroyed for putting Christ to death. so both of them teamed up to kill God but Rome gets rewarded and the Jews destroyed for it?

— Feb 23, 2026 04:44PM

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Dante: at least I have found my dear lady and guide, her eyes aflame with holiest love
Beatrice: *roasts him for 6 cantos straight and counting*

— Feb 04, 2026 01:06PM

Suzannah Rowntree is on page 62 of 400

I am reading this as slowly as I like but canto I was gorgeous actually? the big where Dante's like "Beatrice looked at me like I was a delirious infant" made me laugh out loud but the part about how gravity draws the human soul to God as surely as it draws a stream downhill was utterly beautiful

— Feb 02, 2026 06:15PM