Dante Alighieri died in September 1321 and it seemed that his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, was incomplete, his first biographer, Boccaccio, relates.
The Renaissance humanist’s Life of Dante reports that, at the time of Dante’s passing, the final, culminating thirteen cantos of the Paradisowere missing, presumed unfinished. But then, a full eight months after his death, Dante appeared in a dream to his son. Jacopo saw his father “clad in the whitest raiment, and his face shone with unwonted light,” Boccaccio explains.
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