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Dante’s Baptistery Rescue

The Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence is the setting for one of Dante Alighieri’s lesser-known life tales, which he himself describes in the 19th Canto of Inferno in The Divine Comedy. Dante, witnessing the punishment of the simoniacs—those guilty of selling ecclesiastical positions—who spend their sentence with their heads stuck in tight holes, alludes …