Dante Alighieri dies in Ravenna
September 1321
Returning from a diplomatic mission to Venice, Dante caught marsh fever in the Po delta and died on the night of Holy Cross. He was fifty-six, still in exile, still writing. Boccaccio would deliver the first public lectures on the Commedia in Florence forty years later, weeping as he read.
In context
Also in 1321 (3 other events on record)
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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