{"id":1799,"date":"2021-02-08T09:21:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2021-02-08T09:21:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:21:11","slug":"dantes-descendant-to-take-part-in-retrial-of-poets-1302-corruption-case-theguardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/08\/dantes-descendant-to-take-part-in-retrial-of-poets-1302-corruption-case-theguardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Dante&#8217;s descendant to take part in &#8216;retrial&#8217; of poet&#8217;s 1302 corruption case TheGuardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/feb\/01\/dante-descendant-seeks-to-overturn-poets-1302-corruption-conviction\">Seven centuries after guilty verdict in Florence, Sperello di Serego Alighieri to help test whether poet\u2019s conviction would stand today<\/a><\/p><p>The reputation of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/dantealighieri\">Dante Alighieri<\/a>&nbsp;needs little burnishing: his Divine Comedy, tracing the poet\u2019s journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, is widely regarded as one of the greatest works ever written. But more than 700 years after Dante was accused of corruption and condemned to be burned to death, his descendant is to take part in a \u201cretrial\u201d to see if the conviction was just.<\/p><p>Sperello di Serego Alighieri, an astrophysicist, and the law professor Alessandro Traversi are working to establish if Dante\u2019s 1302 sentencing for corruption in political office would stand today.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/feb\/01\/dante-descendant-seeks-to-overturn-poets-1302-corruption-conviction\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven centuries after guilty verdict in Florence, Sperello di Serego Alighieri to help test whether poet\u2019s conviction would stand today The reputation of&nbsp;Dante Alighieri&nbsp;needs little burnishing: his Divine Comedy, tracing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-08-at-9.15.53-AM.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}