A petition for a public reading of Dante
Dante's Commedia. Manuscript on paper, in Italian. Tuscany (Florence?), late fourteenth century. On sale for $2,000,000
When's the last time a group of local residents petitioned the government to arrange for a public reading of Dante's Commedia? The answer to that question is: the summer of 1373. In the summer of that year, a petition was presented to …