Dante completes Paradiso
1320
In Ravenna, sheltered by Guido Novello da Polenta, Dante finished the last canticle of his hundred-canto poem: a voyage through crystal spheres toward the still point where love moves the sun and the other stars. The final lines achieved a luminous serenity unlike anything else in medieval literature. He would live only one more year to deliver the final cantos.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.