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The unique property in Fiesole near Florence, which has long been owned by Dante’s family, was purchased by an Italian, said the brokerage company Lionard Luxury Real Estate. There was no information about the purchase price.
Various texts and historical publications confirm that the property belonged to Dante Alighieri. It was confiscated from the poet, along with the other family possessions, when the quarrels that ripped apart the Florentine Republic made him leave Florence and spend his exile in other Italian cities. However, Dante’s son Iacopo Alighieri was able to regain the house in 1342. The past of the villa is also traced in other historical publications and it is described as a popular vacation spot for the Florentine Alighieri family.
Dante, considered the “father” of the Italian language, was from Florence. The man on the Italian two euro coin was born there in 1265 and wrote his first works there. In Florence, Dante was also a local politician. In the power struggles of the time he found himself on the losing side, was banned from the city in 1302 and sentenced to death in absentia on flimsy grounds. He spent the rest of his life in exile in northern Italian cities, in the last years of his life he found friendly reception in Ravenna. There he completed the “Commedia”, which he had only begun to write during his exile.
Source: Nachrichten
