Housed in a 14th-century noble villa located just in front of Dante’s Tomb, CASA DANTE (Dante’s House) is the final stop of the itinerary started in Museo Dante.
It is a polifunctional space hosting various exhibition areas, a bookshop, a didactic workshop and a meditation court.
The first room, realised thanks to the collaboration with the Uffizi Galleries, hosts a long-term exhibition with some very important works loaned by the museum of Florence itself.
In a second room you will be able to see Dante’s collections from the Classense Library, the institution that has always taken care of the safeguard, display and scientific management of all the materials related to Dante preserved in the city. It is possible to retrace the myth of Dante in Ravenna from the 19th century to today, with installations as the sacks “Inclusa est flamma” realised by Adolfo de Carolis and designed and given by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1921), the coffer that preserved Dante’s bones during the Second World War (1944) and many curious contemporary objects witnessing Dante’s fortune.
Besides the exhibition areas, Casa Dante hosts a didactic woskshop equipped with working and learning stations for students.
A meditation court offers an area for reflection, in ideal continuity with the Zone of Silence.
Since June 2024, Casa Dante has been expanded with a new exhibition hall dedicated to the cult of the poet from 1922 to today, exhibiting two significant donations: two bas-reliefs realised by Angelo Biancini (Castel Bolognese, 1911-1988) and two small sculptures created with LEGO® by Riccardo Zangelmi and called Indiante (2024).
The new exhibition hall also presents a focus on the legend of Dante’s remains, where special or rediscovered finds as the lead box (1865) and the coffer (1944) that contained the poet’s bones are displayed.
