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Article: Exile literature: betwixt and between body and spirit.(effect of Dante's exile on his literary works)(Critical essay)
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- Annali d'Italianistica
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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"Exilium ibi esse puta, ubi virtuti non sit locus" (Cicero, Pro Milone 101) "Nulla terra exilium est, sed altera patria est" (Seneca, De remediis fortunae 8.1)
On January 27, 1302, Dante Alighieri was expelled from the city of Florence in which he was born and which he was destined to make famous more than any other Florentine. Shortly afterward, on March 10, 1302, he was also condemned to death by the new government of his native city. The year 2002, therefore, marks the seventh centenary of what Italy's most famous exile viewed as "pena d'essilio e di povertate" (Convivio 1:3.3). We do not know what Dante's literary career would have been without the forced ...