Dante Alighieri - Florence, Italy
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A cenotaph installed on the 700th anniversary of the birth of Italian poet Dante Alighieri is located in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence Italy.
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Location: Toscana, Italy
Date Posted: 12/27/2019
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The marble cenotaph honoring of Dante Alighieri on the 700th anniversary of his birth was sculpted by Stefano Ricci between 1819 and 1830. It contains a sculpture of a tomb. Above the tomb is a seated statue of Dante depicted in a pensive moment with his right hand on his right cheek. He is wearing a robe and a poet laureate's cap.
On the left side is an allegorical female sculpture of Italy who is pointing at the figure of Dante. On the right side is an allegorical sculpture of a female figure representing Poetry mourning the loss of Dante.
The ends of the base is a bronze wreath and the inscription:
NEL VII CENTENARIO DELLA
NASCITA
L'ASSOCIAZIONE NATIONAL
DEI COMUNI ITALIANI
MCCLXXV - MCMCXV
In the center of the base is inscribed:
DANTI ALIGHERIO
TVSCI
HONORARIVM - TVMVLVM
A MAIORIBVS - TER - FRVSTRA - DECRETVM
ANNO - M-DCCC-XXIX
FELICITER - EXCITARVNT
Dante Alighieri was born in the City of Florence in Republic of Florence about 1265. As a young man he he studied Tuscan poetry and the Provençal poetry of the troubadours, such as Arnaut Daniel, and the Latin writers of classical antiquity, including Cicero, Ovid and Virgil.
Dante is best known for writing the epic poem The Divine Comedy between 1308 and 1320. The poem is considered to be one of the greatest works in world literature. It is divided into three parts: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso. It's imaginative Medieval world view of the afterlife has had a profound influence to this day.
Other works by Dante include:
Convivio (1304 and 1307)
Eclogues (1319 -1320)
De Monarchia (1312 - 1313) - banned by the church in 1585.
Le Rime (1296)
La Vita Nuova (1295)
De vulgari eloquentia (1302 - 1305)
Dante Alighieri is buried in Ravenna, Italy.