Portrait of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321); fresco by Luca Signorelli, 1499–1504 , San Brizio Chapel, Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, Orvieto, Umbria, Italy (Photo by Leemage / Corbis via Getty Images) ...
In 1321, the leading citizens of Ravenna, Italy, carried Dante’s body to his grave, far from his native Florence, from which he had been exiled for years. Left behind was one of the modern world’s ...