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A photo taken on February 23, 2021 in Florence shows The 15th Century Hall of the Five Hundred (Salone dei Cinquecento), the largest and most important room in terms of artistic and historic value in Palazzo Vecchio. - Florence celebrates in 2021 the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, who helped establish with works such as "The Divine Comedy" the modern-day standardized Italian language, and set a precedent that important later Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would follow. (Photo by Vincenzo PINTO / AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/VINCENZO PINTO)