The Italian Ambassador to the Netherlands, Augusto Massari, attended the Space Expo at the ESA-ESTEC center in Noordwijk for the event “If You Follow Your Star: Dante and the Stars,” sponsored by the Embassy and dedicated to the dialogue between humanistic culture and scientific knowledge.        During the event, Carmen van den Bergh, director of the Department of Italian Studies at Leiden University, discussed the relationship between Dante and the Netherlands, also presenting ancient