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Regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and indeed, world literature, Euronews Culture celebrates the 400th anniversary of Molière's birth.
The first major retrospective exhibition on the brilliant but troubled British musician opens on 26th November at the Design Museum in London.
Madrid, Jun 30 (EFE) .- After a life of exile and deprivation, Dante died in 1321 and it is still unknown what happened to the original piece of the poem in which he synthesized universal history, his "Comedy", which was copied in manuscripts of the time, ten of which are in the National Library of Spain, which now exhibits them."Dante Alighieri at the BNE: 700 years between hell and paradise" is the exhibition organized on the seventh centenary of Dante's death and in which the collections that the institution has of the Italian poet (1265-1321) are exposed, among them, the main "jewel": a manuscript of the "Comedy" on parchment from the second quarter of the 14th century written in Florence and which is the oldest of those preserved in Spain.FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SPAIN (BNE)
As Italy marks 700 years since the poet's death, his masterpiece will face the final frontier.
The author of the Divine Comedy left Florence in 1302 never to return.