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today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.

The objectively funniest part of this is actually that the city that holds his remains, Ravenna, refused to give his remains back. This was a ploy from florence to have his remains moved back for the tourist money and its been ongoing for a long time. Florence had a fake tomb built in the city to trick people into visiting, and have tried to force the return of the remains.

“…On down. Twisting and winding through the gloom. The torch and lantern-lit guard station was theatrically stark within it. I reached the floor and headed that way. ‘Good evening, Lord Corwin,’ said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. ‘Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?’ ‘A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.’ ‘You enjoy this duty?’ He nodded. ‘I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.’ 'Fitting, fitting,’ I said. […] 'Will it have a happy ending?’ I inquired. He shrugged. 'I’ll be happy.’ 'I mean, does good triumph and hero bed heroine? Or do you kill everybody off?’ 'That’s hardly fair,’ he said. 'Never mind. Maybe I’ll read it one day.’ 'Maybe,’ he said.”

Just saw a bird get a worm at 8:06pm.

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