Dante - Poet of the Impossible

Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri was a poet and civic leader in Florence. His enemies had him exiled, hoping he'd disappear from history. But instead, he wrote a masterpiece, The Divine Comedy.

In an unprecedented move, he made himself the hero of his own epic poem and attained literary immortality.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.