Chapter 1: Dante’s Circle in Time

This chapter presents this book’s Timeline, while numbers in bold throughout this book relate to places mapped in “Chapter 2: Dante’s Circle in Space” and to the app: https://www.florin.ms/DanteFlorence.html . In particular this chapter discusses the exiles of Brunetto Latino, Guido Cavalcanti, Dante Alighieri, Francesco da Barberino, the return to Florence of all of them except Dante, and the importance in Villani’s Cronica and Dante’s Vita nova of the Piazza Santa Felicita and its column, then of Orsanmichele’s great granary built to feed even the enemy in time of famine, with its Compagnie dei laudesi that was also a burial society, their tombs beside Santa Reparata, in relation to Alfonso el Sabio’s Cantigas de Santa Maria.