Dante: The decree of peace the centuries wept for

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Dante: The fate of those who deal in bloodshed and in pillaging Italian writers on war and militarism James Russell Lowell: Dante and universal peace ==== Dante AlighieriFrom PurgatoryTranslated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Still near to it Virgilius drew, entreatingThat it would point us out the best ascent;And […]

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