After some confusion, we manage to gather at the Santa Croce, (Church of the Cross) where some 300 rich citizens are buried, including Michelangelo who began this trend when he died in Rome at nearly 90 in 1564, the year Galileo and Shakespeare were born. His body was stolen from Rome and moved here.
Machiavelli, Galileo and Rossini are also buried at Santa Croce. Dante is not. The church asked that his body be moved back to Firenza, but was told "No." Apparently he had a falling out with the political powers in Firenza and fled for his life. He did not return, even posthumously.
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