How he viewed her the "Divine Comedy" tells us, and that he longed to return we also know.

The chance was indeed once offered, but under the impossible condition that he should do public penance in the Baptistery for his offence.

This he refused.

He wandered here and there, and settled finally in Ravenna, where he died in 1321.

The "Divine Comedy" anticipating printing by so many years--the invention did not reach Florence until 1471--Dante could not make much popular way as a poet before that time; but to his genius certain Florentines were earlier no strangers, not only by perusing MS.