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Today is the 700th anniversary of Dante's death - from malaria contracted crossing the Venetian swamps - as far as I can tell sadly unmarked in the UK press, despite the very long and enthusiastic reception of Dante in these islands - from Chaucer to Robin Robertson.

Worth occasionally pointing out that one of the most popular themes of Christian art – the mighty Western Tradition™ reactionaries bang on about – is of the flight of a refugee family. Here's one I especially like, from the African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner in 1923.