![]() ![]() ![]() And while he found himself lost and frightened by three wild beasts, the Poet met Virgil, the great Latin poet and author who helps Dante to go through Hell. According to tradition, in fact, the First Canto in the first Canticle (The Hell) is set in the night between 24 and 25 March 1300, "in the middle of the road of our life" in which Dante, at the age of thirty-five, found himself "in a dark forest, because I'd lost the straight path". ![]() It's not an accidental date - it was officially established last year by the Council of Ministers on the proposal of the Italian Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini - it has always been linked to the great poet Dante Alighieri, whose 700th death anniversary falls between the 13 and 14 September this year.īut why has March 25 become such an important day for the Italian poet? According to various scholars and Dante's experts, this date is precisely when the big author begins his journey into the afterlife, narrated in his most famous work: la Divina Commedia. The recently passed March 25th has become a symbolic date for Italian culture and literature through the years and centuries. ![]()
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