Dante Alighieri - Florence, Italy
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A plaque with a quote from Dante's Divine Comedy is attached to the west wall of the Torre della Zecca which is located on the north bank of the Arno River at Piazza Piave in Florence, Italy.
Waymark Code: WM15QWY
Location: Toscana, Italy
Date Posted: 02/12/2022
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Dante was exiled from the Florence. Today, his hometown honors the memory of their most famous poet in many different ways.
A plaque on the west wall of the defensive tower known as the Torre della Zecca contains a quote about the Arno River taken from the Purgatory section of his narrative poem Divine Comedy.
The plaque is inscribed:
... PER MEZZA TOSCANA SI SPAZIA
UN FIUMICEL CHE NASCE IN FALTERONA
E CENTO MIGLIA DI CORSO NOL SAZIA ·
-DANTE-PURG··XIV·16-18-
There stretches through the middle of Tuscany
a stream which originates in Falterona
and a hundred miles of course not satisfied
DANTE Purgatory - Canto XIV 16-18
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