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The Deeds of King Arthur in a Medieval Dante Commentary

Dante tells us Mordred sits in Caina, the ice-lake of Hell reserved for betrayers of kin, but he never says where King Arthur ended up. A fourteenth-century Dante commentator filled the gap with a gloss on Arthur's death, borrowing from Boccaccio and Geoffrey of Monmouth's chronicle, and it's newly translated here.

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