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' Painting by Attilio Roncaldier (1801–1884). Ravenna,Museo Dantesco (Getty Images)Who cares if Brown veers slightly off course in his interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy in his latest novel,Inferno? Art historians and literary academics might be up in arms,but blurring the facts into fiction has certainly not upset the Florentine purists who know Dante's work the best. Indeed,
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