Cangrande della Scala shelters Dante at Verona
1315
The young lord of Verona opened his court to the exiled Florentine poet, who was drafting the Paradiso. Dante dedicated the final canticle to Cangrande and set him among the blessed in heaven. It was the finest patron-poet bond of the age, forged in an Italian city-state at its cultural peak.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.