I’ve mentioned Dante in several of my posts. This year commemorates the seven hundredth anniversary of his death and it may be useful to list below those posts involving the ‘sommo poeta’.

You will find several castles where Dante stayed, a walled town where Francesca da Rimini and Paolo conducted their doomed love affair, townspeople declaiming the poet’s lines by heart during a mediaeval festa and much else. Enjoy!

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/italys-eel-pie-island/
Describes our visit to Ravenna including Dante’s tomb.

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2017/01/19/the-florence-flood-fifty-years-on/
Describes the Florence floods of 1966 and Dante’s opinion of the river Arno.

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/east-meets-west-or-does-it/
Artist Ai Weiwei and his relationship with Dante.

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/italian-blue-skies-and-blue-palaces/
Salvador Dali and his Dante illustrations.

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2016/11/26/a-mini-potala-at-ganden-sumtsenling/
Buddhist Dharma and Dante’s Heaven.

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/a-hell-of-a-performance/
Liszt’s musical passion for Dante.

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/dharma/
Hinduism and Dante.

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/gianfranco-rontani-comes-to-bagni-di-lucca/
Artist Gianfranco Rontani and Dante.

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2014/10/18/giotto-comes-to-lucca/
Giotto and Dante.

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2016/06/03/festa-della-repubblica-italiana/
Roberto Benigni, the Italian flag and Dante.

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/artistic-venues-in-pisa-and-calcinaia/
Women’s day exhibition at Calcinaia and Dante’s mother

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/another-enigma-variation/
Walter Savage Landor opines about Dante.

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/malaspina-a-bad-thorn/
Dante’s stay at Malaspina castle.

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/ive-seen-this-place-before/
Dante and the town of Monteriggioni.

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/of-castles-and-abbeys/
Our meeting with Dante at Cana’s mediaeval festa.

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/inferno-at-fornoli/
Sergio Frati declaims Dante outside Fornoli church.

https://longoio.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/tales-from-lucca/
Learning Dante by heart – a local tradition.

https://longoio.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/the-best-walled-town-in-italy/
The castle where Paolo and Francesca’s smouldering love affair took place.

https://longoio.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/a-not-too-horrid-orrido/
Dante and the gates of Hell at the Orrido Di Botri.

https://longoio.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/mediaeval-merriment-again/
Dante and Nozzano castle.

https://longoio.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/theme-park-for-today/
Dante’ stay at a castle in the Veneto.

https://longoio.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/mediaeval-madness/
Meeting Dante at Volterra’s mediaeval weekend.

https://longoio3.com/2018/01/21/a-walk-along-the-top-of-the-botri-canyon/
Dante and the gates to Hell.

https://longoio3.com/2017/11/27/ghostly-encounters/
Similarity between the Hells of the Chinese and of Dante.

https://longoio3.com/2018/10/30/hot-stuff-in-cune/
Why Dante’s long allegorical poem is called a ‘comedy’.

https://longoio3.com/2017/07/22/an-evening-of-poetry-by-shelleys-house/
Dante at Shelley House, Bagni Di Lucca.

https://longoio3.com/2018/12/17/zeffirellis-inferno-re-created-in-florence/

Franco Zeffirelli and Dante’s Inferno – an unfinished project.