Prophecy of Dante
Author: first_name: George Gordon, Lord
last_name: Byron
Language: English
Year: 1821

Byron wrote this tribute to the great 14th-century Italian poet Dante Alighieri after visiting his tomb in Ravenna in 1819. It envisages Dante prophesying the future of Italy just before his death.<br><br>

The poem is written in <i>Terza Rima</i>, the complex 3-line rhyme scheme used by Dante in his <i>Divina Commedia</i><br><br>

(Summary by Alan Mapstone)