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DANTE IN VENETO

by Anna Zampieri

Pages 4 and 5 of 19

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This year is the seven-hundredth year from the death of the Great Poet Dante Alighieri.
I’m going to recall something about Dante’s stays in our region: Veneto.
His first stop was in Verona, where he was a guest of Bartolomeo and then of Cangrande della Scala.
Later he was in Treviso, where he was hosted by Gherardo da Camino and in 1865 was innaugurated a stone stele to commemorate his presence.
His next stop was Padova, where it say that he met Giotto and he also visited Cittadella: in fact in a song he mentions the Tower of Malta.
The last town he stayed in was Rovigo, where he been visited in the convent to of San Basilio in Adriano Polesine.
Finally, in the last year of his life he was in Venice as an ambassador of Guido Novello da Polenta, lord of Ravenna.
He was very impressed by Venice, but he was inspired by the Arsenal, the Shipyard where the venetians created their incredible fleet.
In the twenty-first canto of inferno he evokes an image of the Venice Arsenal.
Dante’s visit to Venice was unintentionally the cause of his death, because, on his way back, passivy near the Valli di Comacchio, he contracted malaria, which killed him in Ravenna on 14th september 1321.
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