stackyFACTSThere is no revenge quite as permanent as writing your political rivals into a timeless theological masterwork.
There is no revenge quite as permanent as writing your political rivals into a timeless theological masterwork. When Dante was exiled from Florence in 1302, he was so furiously bitter that he wrote the 'Inferno.' He explicitly placed the real politicians, popes, and local guys who annoyed him into specific, agonizing circles of Hell. He essentially weaponized the concept of eternal damnation just to settle petty local government scores.
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