Dante tells that he traversed the three kingdoms of the afterlife during the spring equinox, starting on the night between the 7th and 8th of April of 1300, the year of the first Jubilee proclaimed by Pope Boniface VIII, and that he ended his journey at midnight of 14th April. It took the poet: one day and one night to walk through the ‘dark wood,’ a day and a night to travel through Hell, a night and a day to come back up from the center of the earth to the shore of Purgatory, three nights, three days, and another half day to climb the mountain of the second kingdom, and finally, twenty-four hours to visit the heavens of Paradise.
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