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From exile to the modern cultural initiatives that have kept Dante's relationship with Florence alive.
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Settembre Dantesco
Dante must
return to Florence.
A permanent cultural project exploring Dante Alighieri's exile, his bond with Florence, and the poetic promise of return found in Paradiso, Canto XXV.
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Seven centuries later, the question remains.
Settembre Dantesco brings together history, literature, art, film and the places connected with Dante to keep one enduring idea alive: the poet's return to the city of his birth.
Dante
The poet, the exile, the Divine Comedy and the places that preserve his memory.
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Florence and Ravenna stand at the center of a centuries-old story of memory, honor and belonging.
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Paradiso · Canto XXV
“con altra voce omai, con altro vello
ritornerò poeta, e in sul fonte
del mio battesmo prenderò ’l cappello”Dante Alighieri, Paradiso XXV, 7–9
ritornerò poeta, e in sul fonte
del mio battesmo prenderò ’l cappello”Dante Alighieri, Paradiso XXV, 7–9
These lines form the poetic heart of Settembre Dantesco: Dante imagines returning to the place of his baptism and receiving the poetic crown.
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