Neuro-expressionism in Dante's divina comedy

Abstract

The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of medieval poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri death. Dante a giant of Italian literature and credited as “father of the Italian language”, died in 1321 in Ravenna. He had a sound level of medical knowledge, as demonstrated by his description of mental disorders and attended courses at the University of Bologna and at the Sorbonne of Paris, where he may have also studied human anatomy and physiology reading ancient medical writings by Greek, Roman and Arab physicians.