For seven hundred years, the life and works of Dante Alighieri have had an extraordinary impact on Art History.
Though the great man himself spent much of his own life in exile (and, later, living under a death sentence) for his political stances - by the late 1300s, he had already been adopted as almost an unofficial saint of Renaissance Florence.
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