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PEOPLE, Page 92No Canto DoBy Howard G. Chua-Eoan
A $5.2 million bounty is strong incentive to track down a
living author. But what if the writer is already dead? Blow up his
tomb. That was the threat posed by the shadowy Guardians of the
Revolution against Dante Alighieri's monument in Ravenna, Italy.
More than 600 years ago, the poet of the Divine Comedy placed the
prophet Muhammad in the eighth circle of hell, "cleft from chin to
the part that breaks wind." The Guardians turned out to be a local
prankster. "It was only a joke," he said at his arrest. Consign him
to the Inferno!