It is this immediacy of language that helps to bring Dante's medieval world, for all its complex and often baffling symbolism, closer to us than we could have hoped.

如此亲切的语言让但丁笔下的中世纪更加容易接近，读者不再迷惘于繁复深奥的象征主义。

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Venice, the Hong Kong of the medieval world, had 115, 000.

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Historically, Timbuktu's legend began to spread throughout the medieval world when the Emperor of Mali made his pilgrimage to Mecca through Cairo in 1324, and dazzled those he encountered with the gold his party carried.

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While billboard in modern day NYC in Grand Theft Auto might fit right in with the environment, how do you plug a product on an alien planet in the year 2553 in Halo, or do the same in a fictional medieval world filled with dragons and orcs in Skyrim?

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