The Uffizi for Dante Alighieri: in 2021 several exhibitions in the symbolic places

The Uffizi is also participating in the events for the seven hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri (Florence, 1265 - Ravenna, 1321), and it is doing so with exhibitions in some of Tuscany ’s symbolic places that were announced yesterday by the director of the Galleries, Eike Schmidt. There will, meanwhile, be loans for the Ravenna and Forli exhibitions , already announced in recent weeks.

And then, there will be an exhibition at Poppi, in Casentino, where Dante wrote parts of Purgatorio andInferno, and one at Castagno d’Andrea (a hamlet of San Godenzo, also in the Casentino Forests), the mountain village where, in 1302, in the local Benedictine abbey, the conference of Florentine exiles was held in which Dante also participated (it was Dante’s last hope of returning to Florence).

Also among the initiatives is the installation of a sculpture by Giuseppe Penone in Piazza della Signoria (titled Identity, with two trees that meet and cross each other, one with roots on the ground and one with roots in the sky, as per Dante’s well-known image), which will follow a monographic exhibition on Penone that will open in March, in the month of the “Dantedì” celebrations (March 25) established by Minister of Cultural Heritage Dario Franceschini. Among the works on display will be a textile created especially for the occasion: a 15-meter-long work with verses written around a tree, which takes its cue from the passage in Paradise in which Dante sees an upside-down tree with its roots in the sky.

Finally, the Uffizi and the Galileo Museum in Florence will jointly produce an exhibition dedicated to Dante’s relationship with science, a theme never before addressed in an exhibition: this will be the second collaboration for the two museums after the one put in place for the 2018-2019 exhibition on the Leicester Codex.

The Uffizi for Dante Alighieri: in 2021 several exhibitions in the symbolic places

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