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dante's description of the metaphor of the poet, in which the literal sense is a fiction and the invented sense is true : description of the truth is more accurate when a fiction is employed to express it : the historical and factual perspective, cumbersome in its expressive accuracy, is removed in the device of the metaphor and thus the truth shines through the allegory more brightly