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JEAN HOLLANDER AND ROBERT HOLLANDER
PURGATORIO
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    JEAN HOLLANDER is a poet, teacher, and was director of the Writers’ Conference at the College of New Jersey. She has published three books of her poems.
    ROBERT HOLLANDER , her husband, taught Dante’s
Divine Comedy
to Princeton students for forty-two years. He is the author of a dozen books and some ninety articles on Dante and/or Boccaccio. He has received many awards, including the gold medal of the city of Florence, in recognition of his work on Dante.

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THE INFERNO
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