This Year: 1308--Dante and the Divine Comedy

Hello and Welcome to This Year, a YouTube and Blog series with interesting information about each year between 1300 and 2020.

1308

In 1308, 

Dante Alighieri began writing the Divine Comedy.

This has been This Year: 1308.

Credits:

Notre Dame Cathedral interior 

https://mywowo.net/en/france/paris/notre-dame/interior

di Michelino, Domenico, Dante and the Divine Comedy, 1465, Cathedral of Santa Maria de Fiore in Florence, Italy

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michelino_DanteAndHisPoem.jpg

Schola Antiqua, Gradual Chant "Universi qui te expectant," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gradual_chant_-_Universi_qui_te_expectant.ogg.