The tragedy of exile, and the greatest linguistic revolution ever imagined. A new, exceptional and powerful story about the most important author in world literature: Dante Alighieri.

June 1302: Dante is forced to leave Florence. Sending someone into exile in second-third century Florence meant cutting that person from all contacts, destroying his/her nest, throwing his/her house down stone by stone, pillar by pillar. Starting from the tragic story of his exile, the biographical events of Dante life come back to surface.

Seven hundred years of rhetoric have transformed Dante Alighieri into an artificial icon, in a high-brow image that has now covered, like black smoke, his life, which in fact no longer speaks to us ... We no longer see the young man who, together with his friends Guido, Lapo and Cino gave life to the circle of the 'young fabulous.' This was the circle of men determined to express emotions directly, willing to talk to women, to determine the change of an entire society, and to find a new way of doing poetry. These young men then consecrated themselves to politics, fought to save democracy in Florence, bet on it and lost everything, paying with a very bitter sentence: exile. Dante's exile begins in 1302, at the age of 37. In him there is still no trace of the literary giant that he will become, and which until then had been suffocated by ambitions and dreams of another type. To wake him up is not - as we have tried to explain - a tragic event in his personal history, the death, ten years before, of the long-beloved girl, Beatrice. On the contrary, it is the exile, it’s unfair trial, the infamous and unexpected sentence and political plot against him, or the vile accusation of having stolen money from the republic and of being a corrupt man that breaks him. The wound to his pride is the most lethal. His enemies destroyed his house, they expropriated and seized everything they wanted. They destroyed his life, frightened his family: his woman - perhaps less cherished than the first but equally loved - and their still young four children. These were the result of the low maneuvers of an immoral pope and of a foreign rapacious family. A wave of mud sweps away Dante Alighieri’s name and attempts to turn him into a corruptor of Florentine politics. It is too much: the dormant lion - the most important writer of his millennium - finally emerges, who otherwise, perhaps, would have continued to sleep in him.