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Questa e megera dal sinistro canto at cornell insight

"Questa e megera dal sinistro canto", front the Divine Comedy, 1793 printing

In Greek mythology, Megaera was one of the three Erinyes (Furies). She was the punisher of breaking oaths and infidelity, particularly marital infidelity. She is the goddess of jealousy and envy and she is a child of Uranus and Gaia, and the sister of Alecto and Tisiphone.

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