Museo Casa di Dante - Via Santa Margherita, Florence
This is the square in Florence with a human statue of Dante!
Via Santa Margherita in Florence off Via Dante Alighieri. We stopped here during our guided walking tour of the city. Occasionally he would say something off by heart if his book was turned to a certain page!
The core of the medieval Florence and more specifically the area between the church of "St. Martino "and" Piazza dei Donati ", was the 13th century location of the houses of the Alighieri family, as reported in many old documents. At the beginning of the 20th century, after several studies and researches, the Municipal Administration ordered the building of a house to celebrate the place of birth of Dante.
Today, the building is the seat of the House-Museum of Dante, which was reopened to the public on June 1st, 1994. The museum is arranged on three floors.
The first floor with a series of documents on the subject of the 13th century Florence and on the youth of Dante, on his christening in the "beautiful St. John" (the "Baptistery of St. Mary of the Flower"), on his public political and military struggles (the plastic model representing the Battle of Campaldino and the reproductions of the weapons used at the time are very interesting.
The second floor exhibits documents related to his painful exile of 1301, the year of his condemnation. After visiting several cities (Forli, Verona and Bologna), the poet decided to spend his last years at Ravenna where we would die (1321) in the home of Guido da Polenta.
The iconography and fortune of Dante over the centuries, from the 14th century to the present day. Reproductions includes works by artists like Giotto, Fra Angelico, Andrea del Castagno, Ghirlandaio, Luca Signorelli, Raphael and Michelangelo.
Museo Casa di Dante - Via Santa Margherita, Florence
This is the square in Florence with a human statue of Dante!
Via Santa Margherita in Florence off Via Dante Alighieri. We stopped here during our guided walking tour of the city. Occasionally he would say something off by heart if his book was turned to a certain page!
The core of the medieval Florence and more specifically the area between the church of "St. Martino "and" Piazza dei Donati ", was the 13th century location of the houses of the Alighieri family, as reported in many old documents. At the beginning of the 20th century, after several studies and researches, the Municipal Administration ordered the building of a house to celebrate the place of birth of Dante.
Today, the building is the seat of the House-Museum of Dante, which was reopened to the public on June 1st, 1994. The museum is arranged on three floors.
The first floor with a series of documents on the subject of the 13th century Florence and on the youth of Dante, on his christening in the "beautiful St. John" (the "Baptistery of St. Mary of the Flower"), on his public political and military struggles (the plastic model representing the Battle of Campaldino and the reproductions of the weapons used at the time are very interesting.
The second floor exhibits documents related to his painful exile of 1301, the year of his condemnation. After visiting several cities (Forli, Verona and Bologna), the poet decided to spend his last years at Ravenna where we would die (1321) in the home of Guido da Polenta.
The iconography and fortune of Dante over the centuries, from the 14th century to the present day. Reproductions includes works by artists like Giotto, Fra Angelico, Andrea del Castagno, Ghirlandaio, Luca Signorelli, Raphael and Michelangelo.