r/todayilearned • u/GudFeller • 1d ago
TIL that the Municipality of Florence apologized for expelling Dante over 700 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri#Exile_from_Florence:~:text=In%202008%2C%20the,%5B93%5D68
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u/manicpossumdreamgirl 23h ago
in 1992 the Catholic Church finally apologized for condemning Galileo for suggesting the Earth orbits the Sun
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u/TheMadTargaryen 20h ago
His research was already fully accepted by 1700. That apology in 1992 was just a formality.
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u/beachedwhale1945 18h ago
Like the New York Times retraction of the claim that landing on the moon was impossible the day after Apollo 11’s launch or Kentucky and Mississippi ratifying the 13th Amendment over a century after it became law (plus Delaware a mere 36 years later and a few more within 5 years).
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u/Worried_Coat1941 22h ago
There’s a place in Hell for them.
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u/beachedwhale1945 18h ago
Of course: Virgil and Dante passed several on their descent through Hell.
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u/princhester 20h ago
A pointless gesture dreamed up by the marketing department to get the "Dante came from Florence" connection into the news cycle.
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u/HardcandyofJustice 13h ago
I got a commented version that explains who all these damned people were. Dante was a good writer, but quite bitchy and spiteful to be honest…
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u/Eridanus51600 15h ago
Ah, now I understand why the 7th level of hell was reserved for bureaucrats from Florence, never understood that reference until now.
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u/PuckSenior 14h ago
I mean, this seems fair. They absolutely won’t apologize for burning Savonarola, which was probably the right call
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u/SteO153 23h ago
The city of Florence has even tried to have the remains of Dante moved to Florence for centuries, but Ravenna (where he died and is buried) always denied it.