“Rubio invokes Dante as a totem of Western excellence, but in a predictable irony, fails to realize that he summons a poet who indicts the very rhetorical mode in which Rubio operates.”
—Daniel DiMassa on Marco Rubio’s Dante-inspired rhetorical turn
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Daniel DiMassa draws parallels between Secretary of State Marco Rubio's address to Europe and Ulysses' speech to his men in Dante's inferno
