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 Alighieri Monument

    The monument portrays the exiled poet who found refuge at the courts of Bartolomeo and Cangrande della Scala.

  • Created here

    Porta Palio

    He immortalized Verona’s Green Cloth footrace in Canto XV of the Inferno.

Traces in other cities

Florence
Dante's House Museum — The museum reconstructs Dante's life, political career, exile, and imagined journey through the afterlife.
Florence
Monument to Dante
Florence
Torre della Castagna — Dante exercised his public duties as one of Florence's priors in the tower in 1300.

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