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Rescued from il Purgatorio.(poet's ashes found)

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From: U.S. News & World Report
Date: 19990802
Author:Hotinksi, Robert

For someone who's been dead over 650 years, Dante Alighieri is surprisingly mobile. The remains of Italy's greatest poet have disappeared and rematerialized repeatedly. Their latest appearance came last Monday, when a small bag of dust was discovered by custodians at Florence's National Central Library.

Dante's afterlife adventures echo the travels depicted in his most famous work, The Divine Comedy, which describes the wanderings of a dead man through heaven, hell, and purgatory. The poet died in Ravenna in 1321, shortly after completing the epic, and his body was placed in a ...

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