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By: pplater : September 18th, 2007-05:11
… to your [rhetorical?] question, as has been observed before now, was stated as early as the 14 century and is to be found in the first volume of Dante Alighieri’s “ Commedia (Divina)”, to wit: " Per me si va ne la città dolente, per me si va ne l'ettern...