Dante, the visionary and the myth
di:Roberto Luciani
Between literature and art28 JANUARY 2022, ROBERTO LUCIANI In the meantime a voice was heard by me:All honour be to the pre¬-eminent Poet;His shade returns again, that was departed.(Inferno, IV, vv.79-81) This is the writing that stands out on the white marble of Dante’s sepulcher in the church of Santa Croce in Florence. Portrayed with a disdainful look, he is not inside. The mortal remains are in Ravenna, in the neoclassical temple built in 1780 by…
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