There are many interpretations of the Divine Comedy, and even for an absolute historical figure like Dante, there are a thousand legends, but only a few certainties.
One of these is that the politician man Dante knew San Gimignano and that, not surprisingly, in the current “Sala Dante”, among those towers that today attract millions of tourists in the “Manhattan of the Middle Ages”, he pronounced a prayer to invoke the favour towards Florence in the war against Siena.