The Way of Dante
The tradition hands down the passage in these lands and in particular in the Castle of Colmollaro, of the illustrious Florentine poet Dante Alighieri. Dante went throught the way to the ancient castle, probably around 1318 when he was trying to reach his friend Bosone II Novello Raffaelli, who had been the the mayor of Arezzo between 1316 and 1317. Gubbio has hosted many Florentine exiles including “the illustrious poet” who had been sent into exile in 1302 by the will of another “eugubino”, Cante Gabrielli, who was in those years the mayor of Florence. During this path, littered with castles, Dante probably visited the Ingino mountain, the hill on whose slopes lies the city of Gubbio, which he describes in a triplet in Canto XI of Paradise in the Divine Commedy.