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In Dante’s Inferno, Brutus is one of the 3 betrayers doomed to be punished by Satan in the deepest part of hell for all eternity. Can it be inferred from here that Dante held favorable views of Julius Caesar? If so, were these views shared by his contemporaries?

by /u/ShelteredTortoise in /r/AskHistorians

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