September 14

In literary history

• 1321Dante Alighieri died in Ravenna, the city sheltering him in exile from Florence, having just completed the Paradiso. Florence, which had sentenced him to be burned alive in absentia, spent the next seven centuries petitioning for his bones.

Writers born on September 14

• Francisco de Quevedo (1580)

The Daily Canon for September 14

Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats (1819).