A ceremony was held today in Moscow’s Hermitage Garden, near the bust of Dante Alighieri, to mark the presumed date of the Supreme Poet’s birth. The event, organized by the Moscow committee of the Dante Alighieri Society, was attended by delegations from the city’s universities and schools where Italian is taught: among these, Moscow State University (MSU) and Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU), the Gorky Literary Institute, the Institute of Foreign Trade, and the Italo Calvino Italian