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Modern commentators on the Inferno view it as some kind of demonic invocation to Satan.
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The double mention of "papé" together with "Satan" (here interpreted as the fallen angel Satan) and the break (the comma) in the hendecasyllable, gives it a tone of a prayer or an invocation to Satan (although there is no verb traceable).
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Papé Satàn, papé Satàn aleppe is the opening line of Canto VII of Dante Alighieri's Inferno.