[athriren]

i love this kind of chutzpah.

dante is exiled from a city he lovingly intersperses throughout his fiction in some of the most famous and beautiful and utterly complex poetry of all time by one of the most famously corrupt rulers in all of human history for things he wrote ~in his poems~ and over 700 years later the sum total of human technology allows someone to say his political conviction by a no longer existing state is justified because of these thought crimes on a site that notionally believes in freedom of speech or at the very least thought.

hope it is better wherever you are dante.

[delecti]

I will readily admit that I don't have much context on the environment around or the legitimacy of his conviction, which is why my main point wasn't about that. I only added it as a response to that reply specifically asking about that aspect.

My main point remains "I think his conviction was already overturned, so there's no gesture left to for modern authorities to symbolically make".

[Grustaf]

Wasn't the claim that Dante committed actual crimes of corruption, not just thought crime? Or did I misunderstand the post you're replying to?

[unixhero]

You write beautifully, yet with too long sentences :).

[athriren]

thanks for the feedback, re-reading that makes me want to take a breath. :)