This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On June 15, 1300, the poet Dante Alighieri was named one of the six priors that formed the Signoria of Florence, the city’s highest office. Dante was a member of the
