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Dante's 700-year-old criminal record to be scrubbed clean

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From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20080618
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London, June 18 -- Italy's most famous poet, Dante Alighieri's 700-year-old criminal record will soon be wiped clean.

Florence's city council has approved a motion that called for the city's mayor to organize "a public rehabilitation" for Dante, who was sentenced in 1302 to exile from Florence under threat of death.

The sentence forced Dante into exile and he spent the last 20 years of his life wandering through Italy, finally ending his days in Ravenna in 1321.

It was during his exile that he composed his greatest work, ...

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