Via Santa Margherita 1, ☎ +39 055 219 416,
info@museocasadidante.it
Full price €4, reduced price €2.
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October-31 March: Tue-Sun 10am-5pm; 1 April-30 September Mon-Sun
10am-6pm
The Dante's House Museum is located in one of the oldest parts of the historic center of Florence, in via Santa Margherita.
Dante himself wrote that he was born in the shadow of the Badia
Fiorentina under the parish of San Martino, even if it is not certain
that the building is exactly the one where the museum is housed today.
The nearby church of Santa Margherita de' Cerchi is the place where the
poet allegedly met Beatrice Portinari for the first time.
The
current museum incorporates some medieval houses, such as one of the two
Torri dei Giuochi, the one located in via Santa Margherita at number 1.
The Giuochi family was a neighbor of the Alighieris and died out around
1300 with Cesare di Gherardo. The original house of the Alighieris is
generally indicated (but without being certain) as a destroyed building
that once stood in Piazza San Martino, next to the Torre della Castagna,
where today the "Pennello" restaurant is located. The current rear
overlooks Piazza de' Donati.
The tower house of the museum owes
its medieval appearance to a restoration in 1911 by the architect
Giuseppe Castellucci, after which the present museum was opened.
The tower has the typical stone filaretto, has some "stork's beak"
erri and the characteristic scaffolding holes. On one side, on a small
shelf, there is a bronze bust of Dante by Augusto Rivalta
On the
small square in front of the house, there is a picturesque, though not
original, small well. Not far from the well curb, on a slab in the
floor, is a curious profile of Dante sketched out by an unknown hand.
The life and work of the Great Poet: an interactive and immersive
experience within the walls of his birthplace
The Casa di Dante
Museum, from 24 June 2020, has a new technological and multimedia
layout, which allows you to discover the life and work of one of the
greatest characters in Italian and world literature in a more engaging
and interactive way: Dante Alighieri.
Inside his house, the
visitor will meet Dante the man, Dante the soldier, Dante the
politician, Dante the Poet and his Florence. A multi-sensory journey
guided by the most advanced technologies such as immersive rooms, video
mapping and virtual reality, to get to know Dante, father of the Italian
language and author of the Divine Comedy. The climax of the visit
itinerary is Room 7, where an immersive show "L'Amor che move il sole e
l'altre stelle" is set up which, through visual and sound suggestions,
allows you to accompany Dante in his otherworldly journey. The visitor
will be able to travel throughout Dante's journey through Hell,
Purgatory and Paradise, accompanied by the voice of the well-known actor
and dubber Francesco Pannofino who reads the original verses of the
Comedy.
The other Giuochi tower
A second tower belonging to
the Giuochi family is located in via Santa Margherita in front of the
Church of Santa Margherita de' Cerchi, and is barely distinguishable in
the curtain of buildings, because it is plastered on the upper floors.
Only on the ground floor does it still have the traditional stone
cladding and a large, partly closed arch.
Art exhibitions and
literary presentations
The Fine Arts Society and the Artists' Club
carry out an intense activity of artistic and literary presentations in
the lower rooms of Dante's House. In 2015 the Poetic Anthology Poets on
a bike was presented, with speakers from Giancarlo Bianchi, Lilly Brogi
and Silvia Ranzi.