 For the rest of the war, the ship was assigned to the Southern Adriatic and Ionian Sea forces.Under the command of Vice Admiral Paolo Thaon di Revel, the ship was positioned to intercept any Austro-Hungarian ships based at Cattaro if they sortied to attack the Allied ships bombarding Durazzo on 2 October 1918.The Austro-Hungarians remained in harbor and "Dante Alighieri" did not fire her guns during the battle.