Calls to create 'Dante Day', to celebrate 'the patron' of Italian language and culture

The proposal to create 'Dante Day' - a day to commemorate Dante Alighieri as an important figure underpinning Italian language and culture - has been met positively by several Italian cultural institutions who are studying the poet.

Giorgio Vasari. Italian humanists, Tuscan Poets: Dante, Petrarch, Guido Cavalcanti, Boccaccio, Cino da Pistoia and Guittone d'Arezzo. Source: Pinterest

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