If you believe the scholars – and sometimes there’s no reason not to – today or maybe tomorrow or at any rate one of these days under the sign of Gemini, is the 750th anniversary of the greatest Catholic poet, probably the very greatest poet of all human history, Dante Alighieri.
We’re pretty certain of this because Dante himself tells us about his astrological sign and we can be confident about his dates (1265-1321). There’s a lot we don’t know about him, though we know far more about him than, say, a figure like Shakespeare, thanks to the relatively high degree of literacy in Dante’s medieval Florence.
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