Byron a Ravenna: La Profezia di Dante fra memoria e cronaca

[Machine translation] Three years after his arrival in Italy in 1816, in the summer of 1819 Byron moved to Ravenna, in the Papal State recently reconstituted after the experience of the Napoleonic government, inaugurating a stay in the city that, with various interruptions, would last until the autumn of 1821. These years, which from multiple points of view represented for Byron a new beginning of his Italian adventure and his poetic career, a reading is given here guided by the relationship with the place (Ravenna and its surroundings), considered as the intertwining between two components that marked the human story as well as the copious Byronian production of that period: the memory of the cultural heritage of the city (Boccaccio, Dante) and the relevance of its political events (the Carbonari motions).