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| | Two Lectures to the Florentine Academy on the Shape, Location and Size of Dante's Inferno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Further, the distance of the surface from the center, that is, the radius of the earth, is 3245-5/11 miles, of which the fortieth part is 81-3/22: the distance therfore of Malebolgia from the center is necessarily 81-3/22 miles. |
 | | The distance of the ice regions from Malebolgia, that is, the depth of the pit of the giants, is 81-1/2 miles. |
 | | Thus the mouth of the pit of the giants will be distant from the center of the universe by 1-1/4 miles, that is, one mile for its depth, as was said, and 750 braccia, which is 1/4 mile, for the thickness of the ice and the depth of the little pit where Lucifer is. |
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