Let’s celebrate Dante before they erase him

It will be good to hurry up to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, before the vestals of the politically correct examine his biography and his (excellent) works with their criteria presented as “anti-discrimination”. Dante was neither a woman nor a black one, which in their eyes is certainly not a virtue. On women he has developed a poetics, that of the “angelic woman”, which essentially excludes their sexual subjectivity. If, on the other hand, his love for Beatrice did not have this purely spiritual connotation, one wonders if a feeling for a minor does not even fall under the suspicion of pedophilia. Better the angelic woman, which however may seem a form of medieval manipulation of the female image: prodrome of the angel of the hearth a few centuries later? If this can be doubtful, it is certain, instead that he condemned the Prophet Muhammad to hell, which puts him on the list of abhorred Islamophobes. He also exalted the empire, even attributing to it a function in the order established by God, which obviously puts him at the origin of the abominations of Western imperialism. In short, his thought presents innumerable unacceptable aspects. Then there is his legal case: he was sentenced to exile because he was unable or unwilling to defend himself from the accusation of corruption. To answer he slandered his judges and, while he was there, the entire Florentine municipality. Even for the executioners he appears as a shady figure.