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... dante notably cannot make the journey alone, he needs virgil, his guide — this relationship implies a spiritual journey, but is mixed, as beatrice is dante's object of earthly beauty and virgil is pagan and poetic wisdom is counterpoint to catholic dogma : the incongruencies emphasize the layers of the poem : they are all true and equivalent on the meta level