In the wake of the Great War the 6th centenary of Dante’s death constitutes an epochal threshold which can be analysed from a geo-semiotic perspective. This report aims to reconstruct the circumstances in which the uses and abuses of Dante’s myth are realised, at the turning point from the liberal to the fascist regime. The circularity between languages, literature, and art that invites comparison between Italian culture and the culture of the Slavic-speaking countries of the Balkans is achieved through this unusual reception of the Divine Comedy, activated between Rijeka, Trieste, and Gorica, on the extreme edge of the Adriatic that unites and separates Eastern and Western Europe.
