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| | Inferno [Hell]. Canto XXI. Dante Alighieri. 1909-14. The Divine Comedy. The Harvard Classics |
 | | These are plunged in a lake of boiling pitch, and guarded by Demons, to whom Virgil, leaving Dante apart, presents himself; and license being obtained to pass onward, both pursue their way. |
 | | From Caprona. The surrender of the castle of Caprona to the combined forces of Florence and Lucca, on condition that the garrison should march out in safety, to which event Dante was a witness, took place in 1290. |
 | | The awful event alluded to, the Evangelists inform us, happened at the ninth hour, that is, our sixth, when the rocks were rent, and the convulsion, according to Dante, was felt even in the depths of Hell. |
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