{"id":40462,"date":"2019-10-11T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelemiliaromagna.it\/dante-alighieri-in-emilia-romagna\/"},"modified":"2021-08-31T11:27:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T10:27:44","slug":"dante-alighieri-in-emilia-romagna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelemiliaromagna.it\/en\/dante-alighieri-in-emilia-romagna\/","title":{"rendered":"Dante Alighieri and Emilia Romagna"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspiration and role model since 1300 for a number of persons of letters, who had to compete with his poetry, Dante Alighieri<\/a> is maybe the most famous Italian poet in the world.
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\nHis\u00a0Comedy<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is universally considered the most important work of the Italian language, and one of the greatest masterpieces of world literature. Through his work, which helped him to deal with the unsettling exhile from Florence, Dante managed to write about the deepest and innest feelings of the human soul: passions, torments, phantasies, and much more. His poetry hides many geographical and visual references that enrich the storytelling, giving the right context to understand the reading.
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\nEverything has a subjective value: the\u00a0Comedy\u00a0<\/em>is not only a story of the Christian soul addressed to God but it is also \u2013 and most of all \u2013 a personal matter, something inextricably intertwined with the events he writes about.
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\nLeafing through the work, you can find many geographical references that talk about the places the Supreme Poet visited during the disruptive exhile from his motherland, many of which are right in Emilia Romagna, since he found his refuge here, by the noble local families.
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\nStarting from some lines of the\u00a0Comedy<\/em>, let\u2019s make a tour across our region, and discover better some of the places that the poet himself mentioned in his masterpiece.
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\nAs many of you may know, RAVENNA<\/a><\/strong> is the city of the Supreme Poet. His tomb is in this city, right in the historcial centre. The nearby Basilica of San Francesco was the place where the funeral ceremonies took place: It is a place of peace and spirituality, and travellers are asked to respect the silence while walking across the area and along the delightful garden of the Old Franciscan Cloisters.
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