Literature

Dante Alighieri

1265–1321Known worldwide

Dante Alighieri

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

  • Commemorated here

    Dante's House Museum

    The museum reconstructs Dante's life, political career, exile, and imagined journey through the afterlife.

  • Commemorated here

    Monument to Dante

    A monument dedicated to the famous Italian poet Dante Alighieri.

  • Performed here

    Torre della Castagna

    Dante exercised his public duties as one of Florence's priors in the tower in 1300.

Traces in other cities

Verona
Dante Alighieri Monument — The monument portrays the exiled poet who found refuge at the courts of Bartolomeo and Cangrande della Scala.
Verona
Porta Palio — He immortalized Verona’s Green Cloth footrace in Canto XV of the Inferno.

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