The Prophecy of Dante by George Gordon, Lord Byron – Audiobook
The Prophecy of Dante by George Gordon, Lord Byron – Audiobook
Byron wrote this tribute to the great 12th century Italian poet Dante Alighieri after visiting his tomb in Ravenna in 1821. It envisages Dante prophesying the future of Italy just before his death.
The poem is written in
Terza Rima
, the complex 3-line rhyme scheme used by Dante in his