Editing Ravenna (section)

==In literature==
[[File:Giovanni Mochi - Dante Alighieri in atto di presentare Giotto a Guido da Polenta.jpg|thumb|right|''[[Dante Alighieri]] presenting [[Giotto]] to [[Guido I da Polenta|Guido da Polenta]]'', painting by [[Juan Mochi|Giovanni Mochi]] (19th century), [[Gallery of Modern Art, Florence|Galleria d'Arte Moderna]], Florence]]
 
* After his banishment from his native [[Florence]], [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] spent most of the rest of his life in Ravenna, and he mentions the city in Canto V of his ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]''.
* Also in the 16th century, [[Nostradamus]] provides four prophecies:
** "The Magnavacca (canal) at Ravenna in great trouble, Canals by fifteen shut up at Fornase", in reference to fifteen French saboteurs.<ref>{{cite book |title=Nostradamus |last=Jones |first=Tom |publisher=Dorrance Publishing |location=Pittsburgh, PA |year=2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2NxuxGqHyJ0C |isbn=978-1-4349-1823-9}}</ref>
** As the place of a battle extending to [[Perugia]] and a sacred escape in its aftermath, leaving rotting horses left to eat.
** In relation to the snatching of a lady "near Ravenna" and then the [[Piedmont|legate of Lisbon]] seizing 70 souls at sea.
** Ravenna is one of three-similarly named contenders for the birth of the third and final [[Antichrist]] who enslaves [[Slovenia]] (see [[Ravne na Koroškem]]).<ref>{{cite book |title=The Complete Prophesies of Nostradamus |author=Reading, Mario |year=2009 |publisher=Watkins Publishing |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GzvcTC3ck8YC |isbn=978-1-906787-39-4}}</ref>
* Ravenna is the setting for ''[[The Witch (play)|The Witch]]'', a play written in the 1610s by [[Thomas Middleton]].
* [[Lord Byron]] lived in Ravenna between 1819 and 1821, led by the love for a local aristocratic and married young woman, [[Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli|Teresa Guiccioli]]. Here he continued ''[[Don Juan (poem)|Don Juan]]'' and wrote ''Ravenna Diary'', ''My Dictionary'' and ''Recollections''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.turismo.ra.it/contenuti/index.php?t=scrittori&id=21&cat=3 |title=Sito Ufficiale – Ufficio Turismo del Comune di Ravenna – I grandi scrittori |publisher=Turismo.ra.it |access-date=2009-05-06 |archive-date=2012-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220024101/http://www.turismo.ra.it/contenuti/index.php?t=scrittori&id=21&cat=3 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Ravenna is the location where Lionel, the protagonist of [[Mary Shelley]]'s post-apocalyptic novel ''[[The Last Man]]'', comes ashore after losing his companions to a howling storm in the Aegean Sea.
* [[Oscar Wilde]] (1854–1900) wrote a poem ''Ravenna'' in 1878.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/literature/english/1800-1899/wilde-ravenna-609.htm |title=''Ravenna'' |access-date=2007-07-12 |archive-date=2021-12-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214061154/http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/literature/english/1800-1899/wilde-ravenna-609.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Symbolist, lyrical poet [[Alexander Blok]] (1880–1921) wrote a poem entitled ''Ravenna'' (May–June 1909) inspired by his Italian journey (spring 1909).
* During his travels, German poet and philosopher [[Hermann Hesse]] (1877–1962) came across Ravenna and was inspired to write two poems of the city. They are entitled ''Ravenna (1)'' and ''Ravenna (2)''.
* [[T. S. Eliot]]'s (1888–1965) poem "Lune de Miel" (written in French) describes a honeymooning couple from Indiana sleeping not far from the ancient [[Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe]] (just outside Ravenna), famous for the carved capitals of its columns, which depict [[Acanthus (ornament)|acanthus]] leaves buffeted by the wind, unlike the leaves in repose on similar columns elsewhere.
* [[J. R. R. Tolkien|J.R.R. Tolkien]] (1892–1973) may have based his city of [[Gondor|Minas Tirith]] at least in part on Ravenna.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/23/jrr-tolkien-middle-earth-annotated-map-blackwells-lord-of-the-rings?CMP=fb_gu |title=Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered inside copy of Lord of the Rings |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=23 October 2015}}</ref>