Dante Exiled from Florence

Date: January 27, 1302 • Location: Florence, Italy

Dante Alighieri is condemned in absentia and exiled from Florence.

Dante Alighieri, widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.