Note 1035 — Chapter IX · THE LANDS
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See Stegmann, op. cit., p. 22, note 5, for references to texts demonstrating the widespread belief in the Middle Ages that Hell is at the center of the earth. On the topography of Dante’s Inferno, see Benini, Origine del Monte del Purgatorio, 1917, pp. 1080–1129.