How could you best combine sentences (1) and (2) from the excerpt to improve the fluidity of the writing?

the most likely reason why dante included the names of historical figures in his well-known masterpiece the divine comedy is because he was trying to expose his own historical judgement to the figures. he settles different characters of the occidental culture in parts of the hell, purgatory and paradise constituting a spiritual judgment according to his thought.

i think that it is letter d.

i cannot see any of the statement

do you know the answer?