Italian lawyers seek justice for Dante – 700 years after his death

Mar 16, 2021 470

Dante's Divine Comedy, considered one of the world's greatest literary works, came to light after a miscarriage of justice which Italian legal experts now want to correct - some seven centuries on.

The man whom Italians call the “Supreme Poet” was exiled from his native Florence in January 1302, after finding himself on the losing side of a feud between the city’s “White” and “Black” political factions.

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SOURCE: https://www.thelocal.it

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