“Tales of the Tomb Raiders” (Wall Street Journal)

If Dante is so great, so quintessentially Italian, this writer asks, whatever happened to his bones? And he means it literally.  As it happens, some bones do exist, in a mausoleum in Ravenna—but are they really Dante’s? Who owns them properly, and where do they rightfully belong? The answer is a long and tortuous tale, full of notaries, emissaries, monks, phrenologists, propagandists, physical anthropologists. And that is not all. —Read more here