Why Do Fascists Love Dante?
Why Do Fascists Love Dante? Italy’s far right has misguidedly claimed the medieval poet as one of its own for more than a century. By Anna Momigliano The Atlantic, February 11, 2023 Hulton Archive / Getty; Print Collector / Getty; Stefano Guidi / Getty; The Atlantic The nightmarish visions of Dante Alighieri, with their many circles of hell, ringed in blood and fire, would seem perhaps a natural..