| In the historical
Via Santa Margherita you’ll find the Dante’s House Museum,
one of the most visited places in Florence.
The present-day museum incorporates two mediaeval
houses that were last restored in 1911 by the architect Giuseppe
Castellucci, after which the museum was opened. Inside, numerous
reproductions of documents about the poet, and images and history
of at the time
of the supreme poet can be examined. In the nearby church are buried
the Portinari, the family of his beloved Beatrice, whose love he
sings of in the Rhymes and in the New Life.
His political commitment alongside the white guelfs
led him to direct confrontation with Pope Boniface VIII, forcing
him into exile, first in Forlì and then in Verona, with Bartolomeo
della Scala. Between 1304 and 1306 he composed the Convivio and
the De Vulgari Eloquentia, in Latin.
His wandering lasted quite some time and brought
him to Lucca, in Casentino, and then once more to Verona, and it
was during this period that he composed his masterwork, the Divine
Comedy. He died in 1321.
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