Dante's Plaque: Galluzzo

"O QUANTO FÒRA MEGLIO . . . ED AL GALLUZZO ED A TRESPIANO AVER VOSTRO CONFINE"

DANTE, PAR., XVI, 52 – 54.

"O HOW MUCH BETTER ... AND AT GALLUZZO AND AT TRESPIANO HAVE YOUR BOUNDARY"

Here Dante denounces the moral decay affecting the city of Florence. "How much better it would have been," his ancestor Cacciaguida says, "if you had kept your border at Galluzzo and Trespiano". He blames the people who arrived from the countryside, the foreigners devoted to business and money lending (considered as a sharp practice), for corrupting Florentine people, and causing the decline of the city. The plaque is located at the premises of Misericordia of Galluzzo.