The divine Dante
Imagine to be seven centuries ago, at the beginning of Autumn, among the high wooded hills between Umbria and Marche, in center Italy.
You are arriving from Rome (250 Km distant), riding your horse in a regal procession. With you is Carl of Valois, brother of Philip the Beautiful, king of France, and you are entering in a nice fortified castle over Metauro Valley: Castello della Pieve (Pieve Castle).
The Pope Bonifacio VIII asked Carl to try to make peace (but it wasn't this the real goal) between the two major parties of Florence (200 km distant): the Blacks and the Whites.
In those years Whites came into power and among them there was the great italian poet Dante Alighieri, who was elected Priore (it was an important public office) of Florence between June and August of 1300.
He was one of those who decided the exile of the Blacks leaders, and the place of this exile was just Castello della Pieve.
Here - on October 4, 1311 - Carl of Valois and the Blacks decided the destiny of Florence (expel Whites and give power to Blacks) and, above all, the exile of Dante Alighieri.
On November Blacks took the power in Florence, and in January the divine poet was condemned to exile first and then to death. He never saw his loved native town and he'll die in Ravenna on 1321.
This happened in Castello della Pieve. Here you can arrive walking with us and have a suggestive "medieval" accomodation.
On November Blacks took the power in Florence, and in January the divine poet was condemned to exile first and then to death. He never saw his loved native town and he'll die in Ravenna on 1321.
This happened in Castello della Pieve. Here you can arrive walking with us and have a suggestive "medieval" accomodation.
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