“Return of Dante: the Guelphs and the Ghibellines” (2008)
“The city of Florence has issued a pardon for the poet, 700 years after it sentenced him to death for his political beliefs. Peter Popham reports on the man who turned Italian into a literary language.” [. . .] —The Independent (June 19, 2008)
Contributed by Patrick Molloy
Sighting Citation:
““Return of Dante: the Guelphs and the Ghibellines” (2008).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. June 22, 2008. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/return-of-dante-the-guelphs-and-the-ghibellines-2008/.
Posted June 22, 2008