Dante in the Ponte Vecchio - Florence, Italy - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

THE PLAQUE
The plaque honoring Dante Alighieri can be found at the north entrance to the Ponte Vecchio and has a quote of his Book where the Bridge is mentioned.

quote:

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In the plaque You can read:
Conveniasi a quella pietra scema
Che guarda il ponte, che Fiorenza fesse
Vittima nella sua pace postrema.
DANTE, Paradiso, XVI, 145-147.

But it behooved the mutilated stone
Which guards the bridge, that Florence should
[provide
A victim in her latest hour of peace.
Longfellow's translation.
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Dante Alighieri
"Durante degli Alighieri, simply referred to as Dante (c. 1265–1321), was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called La Comedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
In Italy he is known as il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet") or just il Poeta. He, Petrarch and Boccaccio are also known as "the three fountains" or "the three crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian language"."
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