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"Guidi" family of Florence,  sponsors of Dante was also primarily responsible for translating nearly all books of the Bible, Apocrypha and Revelations, and revised works of the West's major thinkers & writers for their own means.  Dante wrote "Purgatory" and "Paradise" in praise of the Guidis, but may have manipulated scriptures to create dynastic connex to Davidic bloodline, to control Papacy, justify creation of Templars, glorify their son Godfrey d Boullion, start 1st Crusade and establish fraudulent "claim" to Holy Land and City of Jeru

When Iranian President Ahmadinejad recently went on record as proclaiming the Israeli State to be the 'flag of Satan', many dismissed his comments as mere theatrical bullfighting reminiscent of similar prose made by Venezuala's Hugo Chavez (on describing Bush as the Devil).

Perhaps the truth is a little more literal.