Where Dante was exiled, where Shelley drowned, where Ferrante's Naples lives — a literary map of Italy.
Plan your Italy trip →Museo Casa di Dante (birthplace area), Baptistery of San Giovanni (where Dante was baptized), the exile plaque on Palazzo dei Priori. Dante was banished from Florence in 1302 and never returned. His tomb is in Ravenna.
The Tomba di Dante (free) — a small 18th-century temple housing the bones of Italy's greatest poet. Florence has repeatedly asked for the remains back. Ravenna has repeatedly refused. The literary rivalry continues 700 years later.
Rione Luzzatti (the real setting of My Brilliant Friend), Spaccanapoli, the Quartieri Spagnoli. The streets haven't changed much since the 1950s-60s that Ferrante describes.
Giacomo Leopardi (Italy's greatest poet after Dante) grew up in this Marche hilltop town. Casa Leopardi (his family palace, visitable) and the "Colle dell'Infinito" (the hill where he wrote "L'Infinito") are pilgrimage sites for Italian literature lovers.
The Keats-Shelley House (Piazza di Spagna) — where John Keats died at 25. The Protestant Cemetery (where Keats and Shelley are buried). Goethe's Rome apartment (Via del Corso). Byron's Venice palazzo. The English and German Romantic poets made Italy their spiritual home — their houses, graves, and inspiration sites are scattered across the country.
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