Once again the Florentines have been trying to get Dante's body
(or ashes thereof) back from Ravenna! I have heard tell that they've been
trying to get the body back since the Renaissance but -- having exiled him
in the first place -- haven't been greeted with much sympathy. And note
that it was a Pazzi (arch-Florentine surname) that did the deed.
James Grubb
UMBC
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, COLASACCO, ROBERT wrote:
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> Italy Library Finds Dante Ashes
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> Italy Library Finds Dante Ashes
> FLORENCE, Italy (AP) _ Workers reorganizing the bookshelves at a
> library in Florence found a sack of dust from the tomb of Dante on
> Monday, 70 years after librarians mislaid it.
> The sack held ashes scooped from the poet's tomb at Ravenna
> during commemorations in 1865, the 600th anniversary of the birth
> of the Florentine poet.
> ``The powder within was taken from the carpet on which reposed
> the casket and the bones of Dante Alighieri,'' a weathered,
> notorized document with the ashes attests.
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