Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Dante Alighieri across 3 places, from 1308 to 1321.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Dante Alighieri (most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Dante Alighieri was documented, and when
1308 to 1310period
Oxfordattested“Some speculative sources claim he visited Paris between 1308 and 1310, and other sources even less trustworthy say he went to Oxford; these claims, first made in Giovanni Boccaccio's book on Dante several decades after his death, seem in…”source: Wikipedia: Dante Alighieri
1308 to 1310period
Parisattested“Some speculative sources claim he visited Paris between 1308 and 1310, and other sources even less trustworthy say he went to Oxford; these claims, first made in Giovanni Boccaccio's book on Dante several decades after his death, seem in…”source: Wikipedia: Dante Alighieri
1318year
Ravennaattested“Dante's final days were spent in Ravenna, where he had been invited to stay in the city in 1318 by its prince, Guido II da Polenta.”source: Wikipedia: Dante Alighieri
14 September 1321exact date
Ravennaattested“Dante died in Ravenna on September 14, 1321, aged about 56, of quartan malaria contracted while returning from a diplomatic mission to the Republic of Venice.”source: Wikipedia: Dante Alighieri
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In each of these, a source puts Dante Alighieri and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
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1301year
Florencementioned“In 1301, Charles of Valois, brother of King Philip IV of France, was expected to visit Florence because the Pope had appointed him as peacemaker for Tuscany, but the city's government had treated the Pope's ambassadors badly a few weeks…”source: Wikipedia: Dante Alighieri
1302year
Romementioned“The poet was still in Rome in 1302, as the Pope, who had backed the Black Guelphs, had "suggested" that Dante stay there.”source: Wikipedia: Dante Alighieri
1305year
Bolognamentioned“1305–08], a manuscript that came to light in 2003.) It is known that the Inferno had been published by 1317; this is established by quoted lines interspersed in the margins of contemporary dated records from Bologna, but there is no cert…”source: Wikipedia: Dante Alighieri
1310year
Italymentioned“In 1310, Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII of Luxembourg marched into Italy at the head of 5,000 troops.”source: Wikipedia: Dante Alighieri
April 1311month
Tuscanymentioned“Dante's to Henry VII of Luxembourg confirms his residence "beneath the springs of Arno, near Tuscany" in April 1311.”source: Wikipedia: Dante Alighieri
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