January 27

In literary history

• 1302Dante Alighieri was sentenced to perpetual exile from Florence on charges of corruption and refused to pay the fine that might have allowed his return; the penalty became death by burning if he came back. The Divine Comedy was written in exile.

Writers born on January 27

• Lewis Carroll (1832)

The Daily Canon for January 27

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947).