Dante Museum – Dante’s iconography
The Dante Museum is located in the Centro Dantesco dei Frati Minori, in the evocative setting of the Ancient Franciscan Cloisters, a few steps from Dante Alighieri's Tomb. Through various thematic routes, the exhibition aims to highlight the role that the city of Ravenna played during the poet's years of exile. The core theme of the museum is Dante's iconography, represented by busts, paintings, medals and icons of the Great Poet, but above all by an interesting reflection on his real physiognomic features, in the light of recent university research. The book also reconstructs the memories linked to Dante's funeral monument and the famous story of the translation of the poet's bones, found by chance in 1865.