LE FIGARO.
- On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante's death, the President of the Italian Republic and even the Pope celebrated the author of The Divine Comedy.
What does Dante still represent for Italians today?
Alessandro BARBERO.
- The Italians know that they are lucky to have in Dante one of the greatest writers in the history of mankind, as the Spaniards have Cervantes, the English Shakespeare or the Germans Goethe.
And the French?
It is true that it is more difficult to find a French writer who visibly surpasses all the others.
Recently, a French friend suggested Victor Hugo to me.
But this great poet is all the same closely linked to the history of France more than to universal history.
There are many great writers in France, but they do not have the dimension of Dante or Shakespeare.
Yet it is said that Dante is also a national writer, closely linked to the formation of Italy.
It is a poetic vision that the Risorgimento tried to disseminate
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