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| singleton: that dante, in convivio 'recognizes two kinds of allegory': an 'allegory of poets' and an 'allegory of theologians' : '... surely the allegory of the Comedy is the allegory of poets in which the first and literal sense is a fiction and the second or allegorical sense is the true one.' : and later: 'when we read the Divine Comedy today, does it matter, really, whether we take its first meaning to be historical or fictive, since either case we must enter into that willing suspension of disbelief required in the reading of any poem?' : |
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