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OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

Some 18 years ago, Umberto Eco (in The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum) echoed a sentiment of many great writers.  He stressed that literature creates a sense of identity and community. In his book, On Literature, he said it is unimaginable for Italian to have evolved into the language the world knows today without Dante’s The Divine Comedy. Without it, “the idea of political unity might not have made any headway.”

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT