Suso in Italia bella giace un laco. Il territorio bresciano al tempo di Dante

Historians and literary critics have questioned the places Dante visited during his life and wandering through the Italian courts. Also for Brescia there is no lack of suggestions on the presence of the great poet in the city or in the territory, without certain documentary evidence. The essay shows how, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Brescia and its countryside were at the center of transformations which, from the forms of municipal government, saw the affirmation of an experimentalism of the seigniories, from the Maggi to the Visconti, up to the Scaligeri.