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Did Dante anticipate an asteroid impact in the 14th century?

An American researcher proposes a novel interpretation of Dante's Inferno, seeing in it a possible description of an asteroid impact from the 14th century.

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This theory rests on analyzing poetic passages from Dante's masterpiece in parallel with historical testimony of celestial events.

The discovery raises questions about medieval astronomical knowledge and how thinkers of that era interpreted extraordinary natural phenomena.

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