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The Tomb of Dante (Italian: Sepolcro di Dante) is an Italian neoclassical national monument built over the tomb of the poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) in 1781. [1] It is sited next to the Basilica of San Francesco in central Ravenna. [2] The monument is surrounded by a "zona dantesca", in which visitors have to remain silent and respectful.
The Statue of Dante Alighieri (Italian: Monumento a Dante Alighieri) is a monument to Dante Alighieri in Piazza Santa Croce, outside the Basilica of Santa Croce, in Florence, Italy. Erected in 1865, it is the work of the sculptor Enrico Pazzi .
That tomb has been empty ever since, with Dante's body remaining in Ravenna. The front of his tomb in Florence reads Onorate l'altissimo poeta —which roughly translates as "Honor the most exalted poet" and is a quote from the fourth canto of the Inferno .
Celebrating the unveiling of the refurbished bust of Italian writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri on Belle Isle Thursday were Carabinieri officer Alessandro Alberti, a Roman assigned to the ...
In Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, the City of Dis (Italian: Dite Italian pronunciation:) encompasses the sixth through the ninth circles of Hell. [ 1 ] Moated by the river Styx , the fortified city encloses the whole of Lower or Nether Hell.
Dante Alighieri tomb in Ravenna. Camillo Morigia (15 September 1743, Ravenna - 16 January 1795, Ravenna [1]) was a north-Italian neo-classical architect. He is most notable for his designs for the Tomb of Dante and the facade of Santa Maria in Porto Basilica, both in his home-town of Ravenna.
Cerberus in the third circle of hell, as depicted by William Blake. The presence of Cerberus in the third circle of hell is another instance of an ancient Greek mythological figure adapted and intensified by Dante; as with Charon and Minos in previous cantos, Cerberus is a figure associated with the Greek underworld in the works of Virgil and Ovid who has been repurposed for its appearance in ...
Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, a detail of a painting by Domenico di Michelino, Florence 1465.. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts (or canticas): the Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso (), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos.