Abandon all hope in Australia's inferno

By Letter to the Editor
Updated July 2 2021 - 2:09am, first published December 11 2019 - 12:00am

Lately I've been reading Clive James' translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy. Dante was a bit of a medieval Folau in that he has his narrator meet up with some of his Florentine contemporaries that the poem consigns to one or another circle of hell for their misdeeds.

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