# Digest urth.v013.n007

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 14 Jun 1998*

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### Alice Turner
*14 Jun 1998, 17:51*

mantis,

> Maybe there is a bit of Jesus's visit to hell--in Dante's work wasn't
> there something about landscape shifting earthquake(s) caused by the
> passage of the saviour?

By coincidence, I'm just reading the new Pinsky tranlation of the Inferno
(I'm a junkie; this is my seventh translation). Cantos V, XII, XXI mention
the earthquake. It's never said that the Harrowing caused it--never once is
Jesus's name mentioned, nor that of God, in the Inferno. But, yes, there was
an earthquake, which caused severe fissures in the stone funnel-shaped
structure of Dante's Hell.

-alga-

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