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Papé Satàn, papé Satàn aleppe

Modern commentators on the Inferno view it as some kind of demonic invocation to Satan.

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).

Papé Satàn, papé Satàn aleppe is the opening line of Canto VII of Dante Alighieri's Inferno.


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