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Limbo
Limbo EuropeThe realm of the virtuous pagan dead. Christianity dealt with the problem of those who lived virtuously before the coming of Christ and unbaptized infants by placing these souls in a special part of Hell, called Limbo. Here they suffered no pain, but were excluded from heavenly bliss. In the Divina Commedia the poet Dante (1265–1321) is guided through this place by Virgil, a resident himself.
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