Descendant is requesting that Dante's name be cleared

I'm sorry, but does anybody bother to fact check this dreck before mindlessly reprinting from another source? Like, at all?? Dr. Sperello never proposed an actual revision, and *would* never. Had you actually bothered to do your background journalistic prep work, you would have quickly learned that he sometimes participates in these cultural events in good humor, such as this meeting with Antoine de Gabrielli, descendant of Dante-condemner Cante Gabrielli da Gubbio, at the Festival of the Middle Ages of Europe a few years back (https://www.taxidrivers.it/95488/eventi/95488.html): "The idea of ​​the meeting between the two descendants of Dante and Cante -  explains Anna Buoninsegni Sartori -    it matured last year, during the performance of the play and it will also be a playful way to balance the accounts with history ... I wanted to emphasize moral responsibility, which is justified by the ferocity of the times and wars for power, of the condemnation of Dante by Cante Gabrielli. The main accusation of baratteria, in the sentence preserved in the State Archives of Florence, is based on 'public rumors' and not on a real trial. And it is strange that the chapters of the deplorable political topicality are full of the crime of the same name, the current corruption and extortion. There are over 1,000 deputies and senators of our Parliament, under investigation for the same crimes for which Dante was sentenced to exile. It's an interesting parallel ... " At *best*, and only if I'm being charitable, the original publication misunderstood Dr. Sperello's intent...at worst, they intentionally spun his words into a bit of click-bait sensationalism, which then the rest of you shot out without question. Shame.