The Tomb of Dante's Muse, Florence

Halloween creeps stealthily ever closer, and while the faint-hearted among you prepare to sleep with the light on for one night only, those with an interest in the supernatural will be hoping for some communication with the spirit world. We at Picture Yourself There can barely watch The Munsters without getting a bit frightened, so we’ll be leaving the séances and the psychic stuff to Derren Brown, thank you very much.

However, in Italy, one spirit in particular has been getting a lot of attention from the world of the living lately. Beatrice Portinari, Dante’s 'emerald-eyed' muse, has received a great deal of mail from young, single women across the world imploring her to help them bewitch boys just as she enchanted her besotted writer. Her tomb in Florence is covered in notes – written in Italian, French, Spanish, English, even Japanese – from girls both joyful and desperate. Well, she probably offers better relationship advice than you’ll get from the local paper's agony aunt…

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