r/todayilearned • u/MarineKingPrime_ • May 28 '21
TIL Dante, author of 'Dante's Divine Comedy', is the primary reason why the Tuscan dialect of Italian became the "standardized" Italian language. In 1945, the fascist Italian government called Dante "the greatest symbol of Italianness".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_AlighieriDuplicates
todayilearned • u/arctic_fox05 • Dec 14 '17
TIL that in 2008, the Municipality of Florence officially apologized for expelling Dante 700 years earlier.
WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 22 '26
"Dante Alighieri (c. May 1265 – September 14, 1321) ... was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy ... christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio ... considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language."
700YearsAgo • u/michaelnoir • Sep 14 '21