Why was Dante exiled from Florence?

Dante is exiled from Florence

L'esilio di Dante

27 January 1302. Dante Alighieri, a poet and one of Florence's leaders, belonged to the White Guelphs.

Where: Italy

What happened

Dante Alighieri, a poet and one of Florence's leaders, belonged to the White Guelphs. When the Black Guelphs took the city with the pope's backing, he was sentenced on 27 January 1302, while away from Florence, and on 10 March condemned to be burned alive if he ever returned. He never did. In exile he wrote the Divine Comedy, in the Florentine of everyday speech rather than Latin, and it made that language the basis of Italian. He died in Ravenna in September 1321 and is buried there; every September Florence still sends oil for the lamp at his tomb.

Say it

Dante ha scritto la Divina Commedia in esilio.

Dante wrote the Divine Comedy in exile.

Read about it