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Re: Flat Earth

Paolo Cavallo wrote:
...
Dante's Commedia, in 1300, was based on a spherical
Earth,

Good point. See especially the end of Canto XXXIV.

I find Paolo's argument informative and convincing.

Dante had a wide readership, which guarantees that
a whole lot of people were exposed to this idea,
100 years earlier than I would have thought.