The Local Europe https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Europe in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Dante Day: How Italy is celebrating its national poet Dante Alighieri, the giant of world literature who wrote the Divine Comedy, was commemorated on Thursday for Italy's national 'Dantedi' (Dante Day), in the year that marks 700 years since his death. https://www.thelocal.com/20210325/dante-day-how-italy-is-celebrating-its-national-poet Thu, 25 Mar 2021 18:40:17 +0100 dante-day-how-italy-is-celebrating-its-national-poet Dante's last laugh: Why Italy's national poet isn't buried where you think he is Dante Alighieri will forever be associated with Florence, city of his birth and the dialect he helped elevate such that it would become the basis of Italy's national language. Yet when Dante died 700 years ago, Florence isn't where he ended up. https://www.thelocal.com/20190904/dantes-tomb-italy-ravenna-florence Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:50:20 +0200 dantes-tomb-italy-ravenna-florence