Engraving by Gustave Doré from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy "Purgatory and Paradise"; Dante and Virgil at the foot of Mount P

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Engraving by Gustave Doré from Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy "Purgatory and Paradise"; Dante and Virgil at the foot of Mount Purgatory. Dante realizes the enormous height of the mountain and the magnitude of the task ahead. A group of souls appears, the souls of the excommunicated who are scared at seeing Dante has a shadow and is therefore alive

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