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Where was Dante buried in 1677?


No googling or Wikipedia allowed.

Hmm...seeing as this is a QI question, should I leap to the conclusion that he was not, in fact, dead in 1677?

RF

Well, I'd say somewhere in Paris - how many layers of Hell are there?

Oh he was well dead. well, well dead....

Not Paris.

and nine.

nine layers of hell in Paris?

1. the top of the eiffel tower
2. drinking the coffee at the bottom
3. stepping in dog poop
4. eating horse and snails
5. the arc de triumphe roundabout
6. driving a 2CV
7. trying to get a beer
8. the metro
9. the sewers

right, so he was already dead, so needed to be buried. so my guess is, as this is QI, he wasn't.

*awaits klaxon*

Dead and buried. The question is, where?

(Why this obsession with Paris? )

Well, Jim Morrison and Karl Marx are buried there aren't they?

Just because my crossword question has everyone thinking in circles doesn't mean the whole world is back-to-front.

This is not a sadistic question just Quite Interesting.

Is he one of these like the saints that was dug up and buried some place else?

Are they? I thought Marx was buried in London.

Morrisson might be.

"dug up and buried some place else?"

Ah ha. I knew you'd get there eventually....

oops, yeah Marx is.

Indeed.

*sits and waits for the next light-bulb of inspiration to brighten overhead*

Well, let me think. Was he moved to some place like the vatican?

Not the Vatican, although there is some Papal meddling....

Well he was technically a noble of Florence wasn't he?
Although exiled for many years due to rebellious type stuff.

Maybe he was buried in his home town of Florence.



Or....

Was he buried with the woman (whose name escapes me) who he obsessed about and had quite unrequited love for and whom we often wrote about. She escorts him through heaven in the Divine Comedy for example?

Florence?



Oh dear me no. We were there before you.

Orcus - 5

Spot on about being exiled, though.