Dante tomb
The Dante tomb is a memorial in the architectural form of a temple that contains the sarcophagus with the remains of the presumed remains of the poet Dante Alighieri . It stands on the outer wall of the cloister of the former monastery church of San Franceso in the city of Ravenna in Italy.
A few years before his death, Dante fled to Ravenna, where he was taken in by Guido Novello da Polenta . In his Ravenna asylum, the poet completed his Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia ) before he died there on September 13, 1321.
In 1357 Bernado wrote the following Latin grave inscription:
I sang the rights of the monarchy, the sky and water of the Phlegoton, which I visited, until my earthly fate came to an end. But while my soul fled to inhabit better realms and blissfully reached its Maker under the stars, I am buried here, Dante, whom Florence, a scantily loving mother, gave birth .
With the approval of the Medici Pope Leo X. , the city fathers of Florence tried in 1519 to transfer the remains of Dante to their city. The Franciscan monks prevented access by secretly removing the remains from the sarcophagus beforehand in order to bury them in their cloister. In order to be able to move the remains as quickly and inconspicuously as possible, the monks dug a small tunnel below the cloister wall a few meters away from the sarcophagus. The remains removed from the sarcophagus were then hidden inside the cloister.
In 1677 the bones of Father Antonius Santi were collected and saved in a wooden box. The wooden box was kept in a shrine in the cloister.
In 1780 the cardinal legate Valenti Gonzaga had the empty grave and the frieze removed and the memorial temple, which still stands today, was built on the old site.
When the convent was dissolved in 1810, the withdrawing monks buried the wooden box with the remains of Dante in their cloister. There the bones were found again in 1865 on the anniversary of Dante's birth.
In 1908 the Italian Dante Society donated an eternal lamp for the tomb.
In 2015 the tomb was placed under police protection.
literature
- Giovanni Mesini. Leader of Ravenna . Longo, Ravenna (no year, approx. 1975), pp. 69–73.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Grabschutz , Frankfurter Rundschau, July 16, 2015
Coordinates: 44 ° 24 '58.2 " N , 12 ° 12' 3.4" E