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Dantes tomb to be restored PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Sunday, 26 March 2006
Poet's shrine in Ravenna gets brush-up
(ANSA) - Ravenna, March 24 - The tomb of Italy's greatest poet, Dante, is to be restored .

The tomb in the northeastern city of Ravenna will be cleaned up in a seven-month project starting after Easter, officials said . The Florentine author of the Divine Comedy died in exile in Ravenna on the night of 13 September 1321, aged 56 .

His ashes were placed in a sarcophagus in cloisters next to a Franciscan church - and later hidden in a wall when Napoleonic troops forced the friars guarding the tomb to disband .

The friars had refused repeated requests from Florence to return the remains of the Tuscan city's most famous son - even when backed by two Medici popes and Michelangelo .

The ashes were only rediscovered in 1865 when a big neoclassical building was built to house the remains .

They have stayed in that building ever since - apart from a brief reburial in the cloister garden to keep them safe from retreating German soldiers in 1944 .

The tomb draws thousands of visitors a year to Ravenna, rivalling the lure of its world-famous Byzantine mosaics .

Florence has had to be content with an empty tomb in the church of Santa Croce - which many tourists believe is the real thing .

http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-03-24_1244640.html
 
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