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The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory

Note 1 — CANTO XX.

Charles Eliot Norton translation

The old she-wolf is avarice, the same who at the outset (Hell, Canto I.) had driven Dante back and made him lose hope of the height. The likeness of the two passages is striking.

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