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Commonly known by his pen name Dante Alighieri or simply as Dante. Author of the divine comedy (Comedìa).

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Why are Dido and Cleopatra in the second circle of Hell?

Dante conceived of the architecture of Hell as an inverted church. The higher circles are lesser sins, and each descending circle represents what he saw as greater sins. … The sin of Lust was, to Dante, getting so swept up in your passion or your emotion that you lost sight of God. That was both Dido's and Cleopatra's besetting sin. …
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