Description
The Museo Casa di Dante is the museum dedicated to the poet in the medieval heart of Florence, a stone's throw from the Badia and the Bargello. It tells the life of Dante on Via Santa Margherita, in a building that incorporates medieval houses and a tower-house of the Giuochi family.
Dante's house? More or less. The poet wrote that he was born in the shadow of the Badia, in the parish of San Martino, but which was really his house nobody knows for sure.
It is usually placed in a vanished building on Piazza San Martino, a few steps from the museum. The museum instead occupies some medieval houses of the Alighieri's neighbors, the Giuochi, among them one of their tower-houses.
Its so medieval look is largely due to a restoration of 1911, at the end of which the museum opened. On the façade is a bronze bust of Dante, and on the little square a well that is not original.
Inside, a multimedia exhibit tells of Dante the man, soldier, politician and poet: his years in Florence, his public career, his exile, the Comedy. The route ends with an immersive journey through Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso.
Not far away is the little church of Santa Margherita de' Cerchi, where the poet is said to have seen Beatrice for the first time. According to the Vita Nuova, however, the meeting took place during a Mass in the Badia Fiorentina: two places, two traditions.
A detail for the curious: on a slab of the paving, near the well, an unknown hand sketched the profile of Dante.
The high point is room 7, with the immersive show “L'Amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle” (“The Love that moves the sun and the other stars”): it accompanies Dante on his otherworldly journey, while the voice of the actor Francesco Pannofino reads the original verses of the Comedy.
Outside, too, there are medieval traces: the tower has the typical stone cladding and the holes where scaffolding was inserted, the putlog holes. A second Giuochi tower, almost hidden, stands in front of Santa Margherita.
Dante's house? More or less. The poet wrote that he was born in the shadow of the Badia, in the parish of San Martino, but which was really his house nobody knows for sure.
It is usually placed in a vanished building on Piazza San Martino, a few steps from the museum. The museum instead occupies some medieval houses of the Alighieri's neighbors, the Giuochi, among them one of their tower-houses.
Its so medieval look is largely due to a restoration of 1911, at the end of which the museum opened. On the façade is a bronze bust of Dante, and on the little square a well that is not original.
Inside, a multimedia exhibit tells of Dante the man, soldier, politician and poet: his years in Florence, his public career, his exile, the Comedy. The route ends with an immersive journey through Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso.
Not far away is the little church of Santa Margherita de' Cerchi, where the poet is said to have seen Beatrice for the first time. According to the Vita Nuova, however, the meeting took place during a Mass in the Badia Fiorentina: two places, two traditions.
A detail for the curious: on a slab of the paving, near the well, an unknown hand sketched the profile of Dante.
The high point is room 7, with the immersive show “L'Amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle” (“The Love that moves the sun and the other stars”): it accompanies Dante on his otherworldly journey, while the voice of the actor Francesco Pannofino reads the original verses of the Comedy.
Outside, too, there are medieval traces: the tower has the typical stone cladding and the holes where scaffolding was inserted, the putlog holes. A second Giuochi tower, almost hidden, stands in front of Santa Margherita.