Dante Alighieri, also universally known as Dante, should be recognised with a day dedicated to him. This is the proposal of some Italian academics, who think it is time, almost 700 years after the poet's demise, to celebrate him and his , widely considered to be the most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
But what do Italo-Australians think of this proposal? Dantesì, Danteno, Dantemaybe?
We asked to our guests and our audience what they think of the proposal of a Dantedì.
Our guests are: Dr Simon West, poet and lecturer, literary agent Kylie Doust, lecturer Matthew Absalom.
