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Oliver Meier
Cultural appropriation can sometimes turn into an attempted robbery, a hold-up. In its chronic search for original thinkers who could be interpreted as trailblazers, the post-fascist Italian right has launched an ambush on the sommo poeta achieved, the poet of all poets, the inventor of the Italian language – on Dante Alighieri. one of theirs? Now that this right is in power, why not reach for the icon of the fatherland?